Defense Sec. Hegseth wanted the AI mainstay of the Fedral Government gone because the company resisted giving up it’s safeguards ….
Turns out that almost ALL of the Federal government uses the software including the everyday use of the intelligence and military people working the Iran conflict….
Anthropic has gone to court , picked up support from Amazon, and one would guess had someone talk to Hegseth’s boss….
A federal judge in California has denied the government’s request to pause its appeal of a March ruling that temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
Justice Department lawyers argued earlier this week that the appeal should be put on hold until judges at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hand down a ruling in another case regarding Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin denied that request on Thursday, noting that the D.C. case was brought pursuant to a different statute. “[I]t is speculative, at best, that the D.C. Circuit’s decision will simplify matters in this action,” she wrote in her order…..
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This latest development in the legal struggle between the Pentagon and Anthropic comes as the administration has increasingly shown signs that it is looking to reconcile with the company.
Staff at federal agencies such as the Commerce Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology previously sought to skirt a government ban on the use of Anthropic’s technology in order to test its powerful Mythos model, according to a former senior U.S. technology official with direct knowledge of the discussions.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross also met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei last week to discuss Mythos. President Donald Trump also told CNBCon Tuesday that a deal with Anthropic is “possible,” and that the company’s executives are “very smart people.”…..
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