The Latest Breaking News from DoD

The lesson here isn’t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It’s that we must renovate our democratic structures

Anthropic has been at the heart of America's business narrative this year, but now it's under siege from its own government.

Dario Amodei penned a public letter explaining the danger of the Defense Department's request to remove certain constraints from Claude, and refusing them outright.

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude. Anthropic takes a concrete stance against mass surveillance and autonomous killing machines, arguing that the former is undemocratic, while frontier AI is not ready for the latter.

The U.S. Military accidentally shot down a border patrol drone using a laser weapon, highlighting an apparent lack of coordination between federal government agencies.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has made clear the boundaries of the Pentagon's use for Claude, and the ball is now in Pete Hegseth's court.

Oopsie! Well, that's only the cost of one elementary school.

The very public feud between the US Department of Defense (also known these days as the Department of War) and its AI technology supplier Anthropic is unusual for pitting state might against corporate power. In the military space, at least, these are usually cosy bedfellows.

Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield