MS NOW’s Jack Fitzpatrick took to Capitol Hill to ask Republican lawmakers about the Trump family’s business dealings, including its cryptocurrency firm, defense contracts and tungsten mines in Kazakhstan. But politicians were mum on the topic despite previously accusing the Biden family of corruption. Joe calls the Trump family’s business dealings “pure corruption” and blasts the GOP for avoiding the topic.
The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its powerful Fable 5 model, which has been offline for 15 days because of security fears by the government, a source close to the situation tells Axios. - Insiders expect the administration's limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this coming week, the source said. - A second source said conversations are expected to continue over the weekend, and Anthropic expects to restore Fable access soon. Why it matters: For developers and even non-technical early adopters, Fable 5's blackout was unprecedented and deeply jarring — a top-tier model, already in users' hands, pulled offline due to government intervention. The big picture: The progress toward…
The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of Chinese military companies. The move prevents them from securing U.S. defense contracts.
The Trump administration defended its designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk in oral arguments in federal court Tuesday, even as it actively tries to figure out how it can adopt its most powerful model yet, Mythos, to combat cyber threats. Why it matters: Treating a U.S. company as a national security threat while looking to use its technology to combat foreign adversaries is an awkward needle to thread. Catch up quick: The Pentagon claims it's unworkable for the military or its vendors to rely on Anthropic because the company might pull the plug at any time due to its "ideological" views around AI safety. - Unlike other model-makers, Anthropic refused to agree to the Pentagon's "all lawful use" standard for AI deployment. -…
The U.S. holds an "extremely small" lead on China in the AI race, in part because authoritarian governments have certain advantages in deploying new technology, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey said in a new episode of "The Axios Show." Why it matters: Having Beijing dominate AI — and thus set the rules of the road globally — is considered a risk to U.S. national and economic security. What they're saying: China has done a "very good job of distilling our models, copying a lot of our technology, leveraging open-source AI advancements and getting those advancements into fielding — not just with the military, but also their police state, their surveillance apparatus," he said. - "I'm not saying we need to build a police…
The Defense Department has been feuding with Anthropic over military uses of its artificial intelligence tools. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most advanced AI on the planet.
