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Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but howThe standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the tech industry to once again grapple with the question of how its products are used for war – and what lines […]

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Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon

Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designationMicrosoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic’s legal challenge against the US Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company’s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work.In an amicus brief submitted

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Trump news at a glance: president issues an ultimatum to Congress to get voter ID bill passed

Trump is also pushing for the Save America Act to includes provisions to limit transgender youth’s access to care and banning trans women athletes in womens sports – key US politics stories from Monday 9 March at a glanceDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access,

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Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it | Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey

The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That’s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute

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What does the US military’s feud with Anthropic mean for AI used in war?

Tech policy professor who served in US air force explains how a feud between an AI startup and the US military illuminates ethical fault linesAnthropic’s ongoing fight with the Department of Defense over what safety restrictions it can put on its artificial intelligence models has captivated the tech industry, acting as a test of how

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Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

The lesson here isn’t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It’s that we must renovate our democratic structuresOpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some

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OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns

CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillanceOpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.Sam Altman, OpenAI’s

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Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold

Player is captain of NHL’s Ottawa SenatorsTkachuk expresses regret over Trump jokeUS ice hockey star Brady has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows him insulting Canadians.Tkachuk played in the Americans’ victory over Canada at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, which secured the US men their first

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John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’

Last Week Tonight host delved into the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in relation to the Epstein files and Musk’s poisonous ownership of XOn his new episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time digging into the files related to late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have once again ensnared former prince Andrew.Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,

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US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content

Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland SecurityThe US has built a portal that will allow Europeans to view blocked content including alleged hate speech and terrorism, according to Reuters.The portal, “freedom.gov”, will allow worldwide users to circumvent government controls on their content. The site features a graphic of

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