Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
Donald Trump said Iran “should make a deal, but they don’t want to quite go far enough”, as his administration seems so intent on effectively disarming the nation, even after it has agreed to stop nuclear enrichment, that war is possible.
Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop working with Anthropic, after the AI firm refused to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance or Americans or in weapons that can kill without human input.
“Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???” Trump asked the supreme court on social media over the ruling that most of his tariffs are illegal.
After Bill Clinton testified to the House oversight committee about Jeffrey Epstein, Kayleigh McEnany misled Fox News viewers by claiming, incorrectly, that Trump was never on Epstein’s private jet. Flight records show he was, many times.
Anthropic says it will take the Pentagon to court over Hegseth's move to designate AI firm a supply-chain risk to national security
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic responded late on Friday to defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement earlier in the day that he was directing his department to classify the AI firm as a supply-chain risk to national security.
“We held to our exceptions for two reasons,” the firm said in a statement. “First, we do not believe that today’s frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America’s warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.”
“Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action—one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company,” Anthropic said. “As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government’s classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.”
“No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court,” Anthropic added.
After a Pentagon deadline passed on Friday for Anthropic to relent on its refusal to allow the use of its AI model, Claude, for the mass domestic surveillance of Americans or in weapons that can kill without human input, Hegseth called the company’s stance “fundamentally incompatible with American principles”.
“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth wrote on social media.
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