Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon.

But the future of the $380 billion AI startup comes down to just three words: “any lawful use. .
The negotiations have turned ugly, with Pentagon CTO Emil Michael …
Read the full story at The Verge. ” The new terms, which OpenAI and xAI have analysisedly already agreed to, would give the US military carte blanche to use services for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, AI that has full power to track and kill targets with no humans involved in the decision-making process. Anthropic’s weekslong battle with the Department of Defense has played out over social media posts, admonishing public statements, and direct quotes from unnamed Pentagon officials to the news media.