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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings
Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.
Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products
The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter
As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon”
WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”
President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”
Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
After Elon Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter per day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look”
Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC.
A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+
Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support — https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these ann...
Sam Bankman Fried's lawyers say SBF plans to testify in his own trial when they start their case later this week, after damaging testimony from his inner circle
Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism
RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bir...