How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a
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At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
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Trump administration bans Anthropic, seemingly embraces OpenAI
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There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.