The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman will head to trial this month in an Oakland, California, federal courtroom, where nine jurors will settle a years-long dispute between the cofounders of OpenAI over the group’s founding mission. While spats between Silicon Valley’s most influential billionaires are notable in their own rite, former OpenAI employees and nonprofits … Read more

Conflicting Rulings Leave Anthropic in ‘Supply-Chain Risk’ Limbo

Anthropic “has not satisfied the stringent requirements” to temporarily lose the supply-chain-risk designation imposed by the Pentagon, a US appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled on Wednesday. The decision is at odds with one issued last month by a lower court judge in San Francisco, and it wasn’t immediately clear how the conflicting preliminary judgments … Read more

Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troublesome, Judge Says

The US Department of Defense appears to be illegally punishing Anthropic for trying to restrict the use of its AI tools by the military, US district judge Rita Lin said during a court hearing on Tuesday. “It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Lin said of the Pentagon designating the company a supply-chain risk. … Read more

Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic

At Anthropic’s first In a court hearing challenging sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, the AI ​​tech startup asked the government to commit that it wouldn’t levy additional penalties on the company. That didn’t happen. “I am not prepared to offer any commitments on that issue,” James Harlow, a Justice Department attorney, told US district … Read more

Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions

Anthropic executives allege that current customers and prospective ones have been demanding new terms and even backing out of negotiations since the US Department of Defense labeled the AI ​​startup a supply-chain risk late last month, according to court papers that also revealed new financial details about the company. Hundreds of millions of dollars in … Read more