THE LATEST | CANADANew York Times: President Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, a directive that could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work.
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For Anthropic, a firm that prioritizes both national security and technological safety, the political stakes are high. Supporters cheered Mr. Amodei’s assertion that his company would not bend or allow its model to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to command pilotless drones…
Reason: In a statement published Thursday night, Amodei said Anthropic would not accommodate the Department of Defense’s request to remove the safeguards on its AI model because, “in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” …
New York Times: “Something like this dispute was inevitable,” said Michael C. Horowitz, who worked on A.I. weapons issues in the Defense Department during the Biden administration. “Because the technology is advancing so quickly, we’re having these debates now. A.I. has moved from being in a niche conversation to something really at the center of global power.”…
Politico: The high-stakes standoff between the Trump administration and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is sparking fears in Silicon Valley, on Capitol Hill and across K Street of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between Washington and the AI industry…
Wall Street Journal: President Trump on Friday banned Anthropic and its AI products from all government contracts, and the Communists must be cheering in Beijing. The Administration is making what is a modest dispute over the military uses of AI into a self-destructive show of brute political force that will hurt the U.S. military and the rest of the government…
Bloomberg: The Trump administration’s decision will send a shockwave through AI companies that have invested hundreds of billions of dollars on the technology and are weighing how to win federal business.
It wipes out as much as $200 million in work that Anthropic had agreed to do for the military, along with smaller but important contracts for civilian agencies including the State Department. The company also struck a broad deal with the General Services Administration for federal agencies to use Claude for a nominal $1 fee last year…
Financial Times: Anthropic promised a legal challenge after it was labelled a security risk by the Pentagon and banned from government contracts, escalating a battle between the AI lab and the Trump administration…
New York Times: More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the tech giant to “refuse to comply” with the Pentagon on some uses of artificial intelligence in military operations.
And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon…
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