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Anthropic’s moral stand on U.S. military use of artificial intelligence is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies but also exposing a growing awareness that maybe chatbots just aren’t capable enough for acts of war.
Anthropic's general counsel Jeffrey Bleich, former special counsel to President Obama, is a 'bet the company' lawyer.
The Pentagon's top technology official told CBS News the military has offered compromises to Anthropic, amid a feud over whether its powerful AI technology will be restricted — but Anthropic called the offer inadequate.
The AI company Anthropic was likely not in the public lexicon just a month ago. But it is now after a whirlwind sequence of events in February thrust the company into the public eye more than ever.
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the AI company Anthropic an ultimatum about the military's use of its technology, known as Claude.
The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would pledge not to use Anthropic’s AI for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous killing machines,
The AI company’s app is reaching new heights of popularity after President Trump ordered the government to stop using it.
An escalating disagreement between the U.S. Defense Department and Anthropic, an AI company, over how the U.S. military uses Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, came to a head on Tuesday, with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivering an ultimatum to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a tense meeting at the Pentagon.