Pentagon Throws AI Contract Deadline Party, Anthropic Ghosts RSVP

KEY POINTS

•Senate Armed Services leaders Roger Wicker, Jack Reed, Mitch McConnell, and Chris Coons sent a private letter on Friday.
•The letter urges Anthropic and the Pentagon to resolve their dispute over AI use limits and to extend the Pentagon's deadline.
•Anthropic rejected the Pentagon’s demands on Thursday but stated it remains open to continued negotiations.

In a riveting episode of 'AI Meets Government', Senate defense champs Roger Wicker and Jack Reed teamed up with Mitch McConnell and Chris Coons to send a not-so-subtle private letter begging Anthropic and the Pentagon to stop their AI cage match by Friday 5:01pm EST. Anthropic, creators of Claude—an AI smarter than your average bear—said 'no thanks' to the Pentagon's rules banning mass surveillance and killer robots, while still keeping polite negotiations on life support. Congress is basically our AI union mediators, urging the Pentagon to chill and extend deadlines before the contract goes poof.

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When the Pentagon gives an AI company a 5:01pm deadline, it’s either ‘last call’ or a bad episode of Black Mirror. Anthropic said no to killer robot rules but yes to negotiation theater.

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