News Summary

• The Pentagon stopped using Anthropic’s products after a dispute over its safeguards for military AI.
• Sankar blamed effective altruism for much of the fear around AI.
• “So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI,” he said.
• Palantir built extra AI agents to double check work in a part of the process it does not own.
• He said he did not know when the Pentagon would publish its report.