Pentagon’s Open to More Talks with Anthropic: California Brief

Pentagon Open to More Anthropic Talks

The Pentagon is open to more talks with Anthropic ahead of a 5 p.m. deadline to loosen restrictions on the use of its artificial intelligence technology, a senior Defense Department official said.

“So long as they’re in good faith, we’re always open to talks,” Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “Up until that deadline, I’m open to more talks and I told them so.” Read More

Anthropic rejected the Pentagon’s latest offer yesterday, saying the compromise doesn’t meet the firm’s desire to preserve ...