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Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s ‘final offer’ for military use of its AI
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Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s ‘final offer’ for military use of its AI

Financial Times · Feb 26, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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CEO Dario Amodei said start-up ‘cannot in good conscience’ agree to US government’s terms

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