Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.
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On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.
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“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”
Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.
The decision to settle the court action is particularly striking because the defendant was accused of a serious violation of securities laws. He denied the charges.
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Negotiations, threats and amended contracts have left plenty of questions. Here are some answers.
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americ
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Peter Steinberger, creator of popular open-source artificial intelligence program OpenClaw, will be joining OpenAI Inc. to help bolster the ChatGPT developer’s product offerings.
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Tech firms pursuit of military contracts at root of controversy involving OpenAI, Anthropic and the Pentagon.
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'Chatbots — the same underlying technology that billions use for mundane tasks like writing emails — is now being used on the battlefield.'