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2 September 2026

Pentagon AI official sells millions in AI company stock holdings

First reported

The Guardian ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • Emil Michael, the top Pentagon official setting military AI policy, sold his Perplexity shares for between $5 million and $25 million in June.
  • Michael also sold shares in Perplexity's parent company earlier this year for up to $24 million, and separately profited at least $5 million from selling Brex stock in April.

How it was covered

The Algorithm

Reported by The Guardian