The Department of War gave Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, an ultimatum that will expire at 5:01 p.m. on Friday: agree to grant the military unrestricted use of its AI for all legal purposes, or risk losing government contracts with potentially more severe consequences.
Officials have warned that they could either designate the company a supply chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act to take more control of its products if it doesn’t comply.
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