Analysis
The Grid Goes Classified
May 1, 2026
Analysis·John Hendricks·May 4, 2026
The Kill Chain Goes Classified
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google: the three frontier AI companies whose Pentagon relationships were redrawn between February and May 2026. Source: Global Recon composite.
How a four-page memo, a frontier lab purge, and a $1.3 billion contract rewrote the operating system of American war.
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Analysis
The Grid Goes Classified
A 2015 grid security statute written for the nuclear weapons complex is now being used to pull commercial AI data centers into a defense-energy framework. The architecture is in place. The list is sealed by law.
John Hendricks · May 1, 2026
Dispatches
- 01PROJECT FREEDOM IS NOT EARNEST WILLMay 4, 2026
- 02Ukraine Is No Longer Just Hitting Russian Oil. It Is Hitting the Switchboard.April 30, 2026
- 03ABU DHABI’S THREE MOVESApril 28, 2026
- 04THREE BUDGET LINES, ONE BOTTLENECKApril 28, 2026
- 05CENTCOM’s Conditional Contraband Doctrine Outlasts the CeasefireApril 17, 2026
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