Opinion | China Wins the Pentagon-Anthropic Brawl
Trump goes nuclear on the AI firm, in a needless display of brute government punishment.
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Trump goes nuclear on the AI firm, in a needless display of brute government punishment.
Warnings about xAI’s safety and reliability preceded the Pentagon’s decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.
Under pressure from rivals, the chip giant is set to offer a new product focused on rapid processing of AI queries for “inference” demand.
The moves follow weeks of tension between the Pentagon and Anthropic over artificial-intelligence guardrails.
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