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Trump bans Anthropic AI from federal agencies after firm refuses to unlock capabilities — Anthropic cites risks of autonomous military applications, mass domestic surveillance
"We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again," said Trump.
Sam Altman tells staff at an all-hands that OpenAI is negotiating a deal with the Pentagon, after Trump orders the end of Anthropic contracts
The negotiations come as rival Anthropic is locked in a more contentious standoff with U.S. defense officials.
Trump orders federal ban on Anthropic software over 'leftist' restrictions on military AI use
US President Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s Claude AI, citing a refusal to allow unrestricted military use. He has set a six-month phase-out for the DOD.
Hegseth Designates Anthropic As Supply Chain Risk After Trump Bans Government Us
Anthropic rejected a request from the Pentagon to allow it to have unrestricted access to its AI model, taking issue with the agency using the model for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
White House Moves to End Federal Use of Anthropic’s Claude AI
The White House is telling federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) products, a sharp escalation in a dispute that started inside the Defense Department but now touches the broader government. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) repor…
OpenAI reaches deal to work with Dept. of Defense classified documents, CEO Altman announces
“Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network,” Sam Altman said in a statement.
Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired)
Wired: Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic — Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technolo…
Anthropic and Palantir Bring Claude to U.S. Intelligence and Defense (2024)
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The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern…
Ex-Google Maps PM Coded A Real-Time Worldview Spy-Inspired Dashboard In 3 Days
Imagine opening a browser and seeing the entire planet, live and layered: satellites in orbit, commercial and military flights, street-level traffic, seismic blips and projected CCTV, all rendered in a cinematic 3D globe. That is the promise of the Geospatial…
Anthropic v the US military: what this public feud says about the use of AI in warfare
At the heart of this dispute is how Anthropic’s large language model Claude is being used in a military context.
The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys
An anonymous reader shares a report: It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rectangles nested inside rectangles, but FPDS.gov is one of the most important resources for keeping tabs on wha…
25th ID helping the Army smooth out the wrinkles in its next-generation C2
Organizing data, automatic spectrum-switching and more from soldiers’ wish lists.
As Pentagon-Anthropic feud risks boiling over, military says it's made compromises
The Pentagon's top technology official told CBS News the military has offered compromises to Anthropic in order to reach a deal with the AI giant, amid a feud over whether its technology will be restricted.
The Pentagon’s battle with Anthropic is really a war over who controls AI
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sometimes appears as if he’s more interested in the optics of playing the part of a military leader than he is in actually being a military leader. Maybe that’s why he has chosen a Hollywood-esque high noon — or, at least, late …
The Pentagon and Anthropic’s High-Stakes Game of Chicken
The U.S. military wants unrestricted use of the AI company’s language models.
AI willing to 'go nuclear' in wargames
As the deadline looms for a leading AI lab to hand over its tech to the US military, a study has appeared suggesting AI models are more than willing to go nuclear in wargames.
Palantir Sues Magazine for Reporting That the Government Didn't Want Palantir
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