Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagons decision to bar Anthropic retaliation | TechCrunch

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  • U.S.
  • Senator Elizabeth Warren equates the DOD’s decision with “retaliation,” arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.
  • Several tech companies and employees — including from OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft — as well as legal rights groups, have filed amicus briefs in support of Anthropic.
  • The dispute arose after Anthropic told the Pentagon that it did not want its AI systems to be used for mass surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic is attracting an increasing number of supporters in its fight against the U.S. Department of Defense, which last month designated the AI lab as a supplychain risk after it refused to make [+2856 chars]

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