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Google Provides Pentagon Unrestricted AI Access Following Anthropic's Refusal and Legal Battle
Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense broad access to its AI systems for classified networks, allowing essentially all lawful uses. This decision follows Anthropic's refusal to provide unrestricted AI access...
Meta Harvests Employee Keystroke Data to Train AI Models
Meta plans to use data from its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes as training data for its AI models, according to a Reuters report. This practice highlights the AI industry's growing need for new training data s...
Pentagon Declares Anthropic National Security Risk Over AI Usage Restrictions
The U.S. Department of Defense has labeled Anthropic an "unacceptable risk to national security" after the AI company imposed restrictions on military use of its technology, specifically refusing uses involving mass surv...
Pentagon Develops Independent AI Systems After Anthropic Partnership Collapse
The Pentagon is actively building its own large language models to replace Anthropic's AI following a contract breakdown over military use restrictions. After Anthropic sought contractual clauses prohibiting mass surveil...
AI Industry Rallies Behind Anthropic in Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Designation Dispute
Over 30 employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, which labeled the AI firm a supply chain risk after it refused to allow use o...
OpenAI Robotics Lead Resigns Over Pentagon Partnership Citing Governance and Red Line Concerns
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's robotics lead, resigned in protest of the company's Department of Defense agreement, citing concerns about surveillance of Americans and lethal autonomy without proper guardrails and delibera...
Anthropic Loses Pentagon Contract Over AI Control Disputes, OpenAI Steps In Despite User Backlash
The Pentagon designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk after disagreements over military control of AI models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance use cases. The Department of Defense shifted the $200 million c...
Anthropic's Claude Sees User Surge After Refusing Pentagon Military AI Contract
Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot experienced significant growth in daily active users and app downloads after CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow Pentagon use of Claude for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, leading to...
Pentagon Designates Anthropic as Supply Chain Risk Over Refusal to Support Autonomous Weapons and Mass Surveillance
The Department of Defense has officially designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk after CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow military use of its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons....
Anthropic's Claude AI Used in US Military Operations Against Iran Despite Corporate Restrictions
Anthropic's Claude AI models are being actively used by the US military for targeting decisions in strikes against Iran, despite President Trump's directive for civilian agencies to discontinue use and plans to wind down...