Hard Fork

The New York Times

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Hard Fork

Episodes (185)

Yesterday At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
Feb 27th Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
Feb 20th The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express

Hard Fork

Mar 1, 2026
33 minutes
30 MB

On Friday, President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s A.I. systems and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the company a “supply chain risk.” Then, just a few hours later, the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, announced that his company reached an agreement with the Pentagon. The deal ensures its technology won’t be used for the same two safety concerns Anthropic raised: domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. So what is going on? Is this a political vendetta between the Pentagon and Anthropic? Or are there substantive differences between the agreement Anthropic was offered and the one...

Hard Fork

At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out

The New York Times

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