Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back at the negotiating table with the Department of Defense in an attempt to salvage the company's relationship with the US military and prevent it from being iced out of defense work for being a "supply chain risk." Talks between the two parties imploded on Friday after weeks of bitter public feuding over the startup's refusal to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI, with rivals like OpenAI rushing to fill the void. Amodei is in talks with under-secretary of defense for research and engineering Emil Michael about a new contract that would allow the US military to continue using Anthropi … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back at the negotiating table with the Department of Defense in an attempt to salvage the company's relationship with the US military and prevent it from being iced out of defense work for being a "supply chain risk." Talks between the two parties imploded on Friday after weeks of bitter public feuding over the startup's refusal to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI, with rivals like OpenAI rushing to fill the void.
Amodei is in talks with under-secretary of defense for research and engineering Emil Michael about a new contract that would allow the US military to continue using Anthropi …
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