Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal (ft.com)

It really is the classic "you either die a safety-first AI lab, or you live long enough to see yourself back at the Pentagon negotiating table" arc.

These people care about money. They got the PR from the showboat stance, so, might as well get the money now too :)

Being in tech is not that hard, just be a utter piece of shit.

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Non issue if they keep their red lines.

Hopefully Mistral or open-source can get similar models working. At the moment on the Max subscription with Claude Code, need to get away though.

How is it that noone seems to have a moral backbone anymore.

I don't think this surprised anyone.

> Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply chain.

Is the only sentence in that article related to the title and there’s no information to back up the statement? How is this a news article?

The rest of the page rehashes last week.