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Sheera Frenkel

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NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang. Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)

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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: Inside the Battle Over A.I. Warfare

You can hear me on the Daily today, talking about the robot wars future we are all hurtling into.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/p...

09.03.2026 16:03 👍 67 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 2
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Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

NEW- Anthropic has officially filed suit agains the Pentagon over the supply chain risk designation. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/t...

09.03.2026 15:12 👍 170 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1
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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

NYT finds more video evidence confirming its earlier conclusion that the double-tap strike on a girls' school in Minab was carried out by US forces, contradicting Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible.

09.03.2026 02:39 👍 89 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 4
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Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

06.03.2026 12:42 👍 1249 🔁 494 💬 36 📌 31
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This is a love song for Northern California.

09.03.2026 00:17 👍 41 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Hope Bezos does an interview soon where he explains, again, why he thought his foreign bureaus were expendable.

06.03.2026 17:14 👍 65 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

Love your faith in us!

04.03.2026 00:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I get it! I wanted to point to that magazine piece because I think a lot of people missed it when it published in Dec, and he is such a smart commentator on this stuff.

04.03.2026 00:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We’ve written dozens of articles on drones in Ukraine/Gaza/etc. I highly recommend the magazine story by CJ Chivers on this.

03.03.2026 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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U.S. and Allies Encounter Iran’s Arsenal of Drones

Drones are changing the way nation states fight wars. Our story on how Iran’s arsenal of lightweight drones is punching through missile defense shields: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

03.03.2026 21:06 👍 83 🔁 23 💬 7 📌 1

My version of this yesterday was:

“Anthropic Iran story should be exist.

I’ll write words on drones.”

03.03.2026 21:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

03.03.2026 19:12 👍 5807 🔁 1308 💬 130 📌 59

"In the end, the talks between Anthropic and the Department of Defense were undone by weeks of building frustration between men who had differing philosophies about A.I. and who did not like one another."

02.03.2026 21:15 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

We profiled Palmer Luckey, who is at the forefront of new defense tech companies selling autonomous weapons to the U.S. military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...

02.03.2026 17:45 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 9 📌 4

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

01.03.2026 19:26 👍 2325 🔁 1028 💬 53 📌 62
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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

The deal between the Pentagon and Anthropic didn’t just fall apart because of disagreement over the mass surveillance of Americans. In the background, there were also warring personality differences between men who have know each other for years in Silicon Valley.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

01.03.2026 19:21 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

We have some new details on this in our story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

01.03.2026 19:13 👍 42 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

01.03.2026 19:13 👍 131 🔁 56 💬 8 📌 12
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First street art of hometown hero Alysa Liu already going up in Oakland!

28.02.2026 23:32 👍 85 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

We ate outdoors last night too! We belong to a pool club situation in the Oakland Hills.

28.02.2026 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Mama, Requested at Pool, is Nowhere to be Found”

28.02.2026 19:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When you are working all weekend and your kids want your attention so you open your laptop screen to find this:

28.02.2026 18:59 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

When you call the DOD and they point you to this as their timeline🙃

28.02.2026 04:15 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...

28.02.2026 03:46 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I stopped working for an hour to have dinner with my kids, and Open AI announces they have reached a deal with Pentagon under… the same terms Anthropic was requesting?

If anyone can explain what is going on, my DMs are open ;)

28.02.2026 03:29 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

👋🏽👋🏽

28.02.2026 00:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

27.02.2026 23:23 👍 547 🔁 136 💬 20 📌 22
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Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff

A US-based company has never been declared a supply chain risk. The decision by the Pentagon to use this tactic against Anthropic will almost certainly end up in court: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

27.02.2026 22:42 👍 271 🔁 68 💬 11 📌 9

I have not been able to put my cell phone down for hours.

27.02.2026 22:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is SO NUTS. There were so many off-ramps to declare and yet…

27.02.2026 22:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0