Trump says he fired Anthropic ‘like dogs’ as negotiations with Pentagon reportedly restart

Trump says he fired Anthropic ‘like dogs’ as negotiations with Pentagon reportedly restart Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military’s use of company’s AI US politics live – latest updates Trump ousts DHS secretary Kristi Noem Donald Trump boasted about severing the ties between the US military and Anthropic the same day multiple reports said that negotiations between the Department of Defense and the AI startup had resumed. “Well, I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired like dogs, because they shouldn’t have done that,” Trump told Politico. Trump on Friday ordered the entire federal government to cease using Anthropic’s tech, which the state and treasury departments have begun, according to their respective heads. The termination may not be permanent, though. Negotiations have restarted between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the military’s use of the company’s AI and the contract between the two, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg . Anthropic’s products, which include the popular Claude chatbot and coding assistant, are integrated into Palantir’s Maven system, a newly vital tool of military intelligence that was used in recent strikes on Iran, according to the Washington Post . Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has been discussing the Pentagon’s contract with Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and a former Uber executive, per Bloomberg. The two strongly dislike one another, the New York Times reported. On Thursday, Amodei sent a scorching message to his employees disparaging the Trump administration and rival OpenAI, which late last week jumped into the void left by the government and Anthropic’s breakup and announced its own deal with the military. Amodei called OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “mendacious” and said Altman’s claims that the Pentagon would abide by safeguards amounted to nothing more than “safety theater”. From his end, Altman acceded to employees in a...