The company's current battle with the Pentagon distracts from the military use of its flagship model.
By Harrison BERGER
The San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic has garnered national attention after a high-profile public dispute with the Pentagon over AI safety standards and the potential use of its technology for mass domestic surveillance. Its defiance of demands from the Trump administration-which last month led to a ban on federal government contracting with the company that is now the basis of an Anthropic lawsuit against the administration-prompted Silicon Valley elites to rally behind Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei.