A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity
On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company leadership to preserve “optionality”
I led the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI for approximately three years and then joined two other teams before deciding to leave in June 2025.
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks
which Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : There was no way governments (rightly or wrongly) were going to allow the next steps in AI that are going to fundamentally reshape society without h...
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which argues for open sourcing AI tools, says AI's benefits far outweigh its harms, and opposes AI regulation
The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.