Ed Ludlow

Now, coming up, we're going to talk about the U.S.

government's effort to enlist Silicon Valley in its AI warfare ambitions.

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The Trump administration's decision to blacklist Anthropic after its dispute with the Pentagon has sparked debate about how the government does business with the technology sector and buys AI.

Here's what the CEO of Dell, whose biggest customer is the US government, told Bloomberg.

It's also cast a spotlight on efforts to enlist Silicon Valley into the government's vision for AI warfare.

That's the focus of the forthcoming book from Bloomberg's own Katrina Manson, Project Maven.

Katrina joins us now.

The timing of this book, the recent reporting that you've been doing, this is the story right now.

The use of technology and the government's relationship with the technology sector, I guess, take us inside what you've written and the conclusions that you've reached.

Bloomberg's Katrina Manson, author of the new book, Project Maven.

Thank you very much.

And it's due out very soon, later in this month.

That does it for this edition of Bloomberg Tech.

Actually, since we've come on air, this is what financial markets look like.

The asset 100 is now down half a percent, a big move higher in the US 10-year yield.

And again...

Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, we're above $100 a barrel.

We focus on the war in Iran and the technology sector.