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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a public apology to the US government and Pentagon last week. In a full 180 degree U-turn, CEO apologised for the memo that he sent to employees soon after the company’s talks with Pentagon (Department of War) broke down. Amodei said he is very sorry for the way he handled…
Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, has taken the Trump administration to court. The AI company has filed a lawsuit on Monday (March 9) to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist – a designation that is reserved for those organisations, or countries, that pose national security threat. This is already…
Left: Pentagon head Pete Hegseth Right: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei The US is reportedly preparing new rules for artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The proposed guidelines come amid a dispute between the Pentagon and the Claude maker Anthropic over how its technology could be used by the military. Under the new rules, AI companies must allow…
Google, following Microsoft and Amazon, assures users that Anthropic’s AI models, including Claude, remain available for non-defense projects. This comes after the Pentagon blacklisted the startup over supply chain risks due to its refusal to grant unrestricted access for applications deemed unsafe. Despite the Pentagon’s move, major cloud providers are backing Anthropic’s commercial use. Google…
Amazon has now released a statement stating that it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models to its cloud customers, with the exception of workloads involving the US Department of War. According to a report by CNBC, this announcement from Amazon comes day after the federal agency Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a move the…
Downloads of Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude have increased sharply on mobile app stores, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb. The AI chatbot recorded a 55% week-over-week jump in downloads as of March 2. According to the data, average daily downloads rose to about 337,200 compared with roughly 217,000 the previous week. The surge…
Dario Amodei has walked back his leaked internal memo criticizing the Trump administration, calling it a heat-of-the-moment post that he dashed off within hours of one of the worst news days in Anthropic’s short history—a Friday afternoon in which Trump threatened to pull the company from all federal systems, the Pentagon announced a supply chain…
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Microsoft has now announced that it will continue to embed Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models in its products, despite the US Department of War labelling the startup as a supply-chain risk. According to a report by CNBC, the company has now clarified that its legal team reviewed the designation and concluded Anthropic’s…
Hours after the US Department of War officially designated Anthropic a ‘nation security risk’, CEO Dario Amodei has apologised for comments he made in an internal memo last week. In an interview with The Economist, Amodei said he “want to apologize” for the memo that was written on Friday, February 27 after a series of…
Claude-maker Anthropic has been officially designated as “nation security risk” in America, becoming the first US company to get the label. In an official statement, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the AI firm now has no choice but to challenge the supply chain risk designation. “Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the…
