Pete Hegseth
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Also known as: hegseth
U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration. Lead figure on Pentagon AI procurement and the Anthropic-DoD blacklist dispute.
15 mentions · 14 days · first seen Apr 1, 2026 · last seen Oct 10, 2026
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