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AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Anthropic rejects Pentagon's "final offer" in AI safeguards fight
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been "virtually no progress" on negotiations with the Pentagon. Why it matters: A deadline of Friday at 5:01pm is fast approaching for Anthropic to let the Pentagon use its model Claude as it sees fit or potentially face severe consequences. What they're saying: "The contract language we received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons," Amodei said in a statement. - "New language framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will. Despite DOW's recent public statements, these narrow safeguards have been the crux of…
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JUSTTHENEWS (Natalia Mittelstadt) - Pentagon demands Anthropic grant military full access to AI model Claude: report
"We continued good-faith conversations about our usage policy to ensure Anthropic can continue to support the government's national security mission in line with what our models can reliably and responsibly do," a company spokesperson said