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Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.

Business & Tech

Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying

San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.

Business & Tech

'Verified' Account on Twitter Shares AI-Generated Image of Explosion at Pentagon, Briefly Roiling Stock Market

In a first major example of a piece of misinformation from a phony yet blue-check "verified" news account on Twitter since the Musk-era change, an account purporting to be Bloomberg News posted an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: SoCal's Mysterious Missile Launch In Skies Over San Francisco

It sounds like Los Angeles lost its collective mind* Saturday night, when a sudden bright light in the sky led to cries of "UFO!" The flare, which turned out to be

SF News

Uh, Did You Guys Hear About This Missile?

So, somebody launched a missile on Monday night, pretty damn close to Los Angeles, and neither the Defense Department or the Pentagon is saying what the hell it was about. The Navy and