Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk
Anthropic PBC hired the lobbying firm Ballard Partners as it draws out its fight with the Pentagon, a new public document shows.
Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days after DOD designated the company a supply chain risk
In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017
Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense …
Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI's robotics team, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's US DOD contract
Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract
Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract
Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with “extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative” short-term PR
Berber Jin /Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal on Friday “looked opportunistic and sloppy” but OpenAI was “trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome”
Katherine Li /Business Insider:
Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own “safety stack” and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task
Sam Altman told OpenAI employees at an all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon that a potential agreement is emerging …
Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands
Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon …