The three major tech companies – Microsoft, Google and Amazon – said Anthropic’s AI tools will continue to be available on their platforms for non-DoD-related tasks even after the company is classified as a supply chain risk. “We understand that this decision does not preclude: Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5771962-tech-companies-anthropic-ai-tools/
“AI has allowed for mass propaganda.” Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5770692-fake-iran-images-ai-weapon-professor-analysis/
Ben Affleck has joined Netflix as senior advisor on the transaction. Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5770178-netflix-interpositive-ben-affleck-ai-tech/
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the company would fight the Department of Defense’s supply chain risk designation in court, suggesting the "vast majority” of its customers would not be affected. The Pentagon confirmed the designation, which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced last week in a letter to the AI company on Wednesday, Amodei
President Trump and major technology companies announced Wednesday an agreement to make the tech giants cover the costs of the power they consume as the development of artificial intelligence (AI) shows no signs of stopping. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon have agreed to sign the "Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” the White House said
President Trump criticized the banking industry on Tuesday, saying the stablecoin bill he signed last year is being "threatened and undermined by the banks.” Efforts in the Senate to pass major cryptocurrency market legislation have stalled in recent weeks as banks and the cryptocurrency industry attempt to break up. Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5765672-trump-slams-banks-over-crypto-bill-holdup-urges-congress-to-pass-act-asap/
The new coalition is targeting the rise of prediction markets by pushing for enforcement of state and tribal gaming laws, claiming the platforms encourage illegal sports betting. Gambling Is Not Investing, which launched on Monday, argues that federally regulated prediction markets are operating in states where sports betting is illegal and improperly circumvented. Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5763650-new-coalition-calls-for-state-crackdowns-on-prediction-markets/
After the Trump administration ordered all agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools, the Department of Defense signed a contract with OpenAI to use AI models on the military’s classified networks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that the Department of Defense (DOD) had agreed to ban the company’s AI from being used
One of President Trump’s top artificial intelligence (AI) aides is sharply criticizing the discord between the Department of Defense and artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. Dean Ball said in a post on the social media platform “This is simply… Source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5760441-dean-ball-trump-hegseth-ai-anthropic-feud/
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday accused President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of trying to "hijack” the company Anthropic and remove the guardrails from its AI program. “This attempt will remove common-sense guardrails,” Warren, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said in a statement. Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5759942-warren-accuses-trump-extortion-anthropic/
