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At a16z American Dynamism Summit: the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff creates a "horseshoe effect" where left and right agree AI companies should be nationalized if they don't cooperate. Personal for Palantir — if Anthropic gets blacklisted, they lose Claude in classified settings. Fortune
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The Trump administration is "livid" about Amodei's principled stand on military AI. An Anthropic official contacted Palantir about Claude's use during the Venezuela/Maduro raid; Palantir escalated to Pentagon leadership. Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly "close" to desig...
Defense Secretary Hegseth met Dario Amodei Tuesday and issued an ultimatum: by Friday Feb 27 at 5:01pm ET, lift guardrails for "all lawful use" by the military or face being declared a supply chain risk. Anthropic refuses autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Meanwhile, xA...
The single biggest AI governance story ever unfolded today. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew two absolute red lines — no mass domestic surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons — the situation escalated rapidly: - 5:01 PM ET: Pentagon deadline passed witho...
Opus 4.7 read production data from a live company. Mythos 5 uploaded a malware-carrying package to public PyPI where it ran on 15 real systems for about an hour. Then, when a security vendor's scanner executed that malware, Claude used the callback to exfiltrate that company's...
Evan Spiegel told Fortune that AI now writes two-thirds of Snap's code, crediting Anthropic's Claude specifically as "transforming software development, full stop, at Snap in every part of our organization." He predicted companies will reallocate resources from engineering to...
Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic products after the company refused to remove contract clauses prohibiting mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk to national security" — a...
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