2026-03-05
It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.
Financial Times
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models
Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.
Bloomberg
A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”
The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's deemed the artificial intelligence company and its products a risk to the US supply chain …
It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.
The Information
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
2026-03-04
It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.
Washington Post
Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran
It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.
The Information
Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
2026-01-19
This is super important, and is yet another reminder of just how new the entire AI policy space is—auditing and verification is basically just starting despite the (enormous) sums pouring into the space.
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …
2026-01-18
This is super important, and is yet another reminder of just how new the entire AI policy space is—auditing and verification is basically just starting despite the (enormous) sums pouring into the space.
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …