Anthropic's $60B+ in funding from 200+ investors, half of which came just last month, is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon
but that's not the case. Investors are just worried about their ROI depending on how this supply chain risk designation plays out. A nothing story. [embedded post]
The US Treasury Department, State Department, and Federal Housing Finance Agency stop using Anthropic's AI products; the State Department will switch to OpenAI
The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products …
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company leadership to preserve “optionality”
I led the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI for approximately three years and then joined two other teams before deciding to leave in June 2025.
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”
We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.