Tina Nguyen

Senior Reporter, Washington

Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and the author of Regulator, a newsletter covering the second Trump administration, political influencers, tech lobbying and Big Tech vs. Big Government. Before joining The Verge, Nguyen was a founding partner at Puck, where she covered the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem; a White House reporter for Politico covering the first Trump administration; and a staff writer at Vanity Fair covering politics and media. She is the author of The MAGA Diaries: Life Among the Fanatics, Extremists and True Believers that Created the Modern Right, published by One Signal/Atria/Simon and Shuster in January 2024. Nguyen is based in Washington, D.C.

The mysterious case of the DHS white supremacist memelord

Tina NguyenMar 11

Employees across OpenAI and Google support Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon

Hayden Field and Tina NguyenMar 9

Tina NguyenMar 6

Anthropic responds to the Pentagon.

In a blog post, CEO Dario Amodei confirmed reports that the Defense Department had sent them a letter formally designating them a supply-chain risk, and said Anthropic planned to challenge them in court. He also clarified how it would currently impact Claude users:

The language used by the Department of War in the letter (even supposing it was legally sound) matches our statement on Friday that the vast majority of our customers are unaffected by a supply chain risk designation. With respect to our customers, it plainly applies only to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of contracts with the Department of War, not all use of Claude by customers who have such contracts.

The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

Tina NguyenMar 5

Kristi Noem gets retired.

After overseeing many months of brutal immigration crackdowns, sending ICE to occupy Minneapolis, and fending off backroom attempts to get President Donald Trump to fire her, the controversial Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (and dog anti-enthusiast) has been shuffled out of DHS.

So what will her replacement, Republican Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, be like as DHS secretary? Well, he once challenged the head of the Teamsters Union to a fistfight in the middle of a Senate hearing, so, there’s that.

Screenshot via @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social.

AI is now part of the culture wars — and real wars

Tina NguyenMar 4

Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance

The Pro-Human Declaration has been signed by the American Federation of Teachers, the Congress of Christian Leaders, the Progressive Democrats of America, and Steve Bannon.

Tina NguyenMar 4

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

Tina NguyenFeb 28

Tina NguyenFeb 26

The Pentagon is making moves.

In what appears to be preparations to fully blacklist Anthropic for not budging on their acceptable use policies, the Defense Department has begun reaching out to contractors to assess their exposure to the AI company’s products. Boeing and Lockheed Martin, two of the biggest companies in the defense space, have reportedly been contacted.

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

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