Anthropic vs. The Pentagon: America's Most Dangerous AI Company?

In today's episode: Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for the leaked memo The US DOD says it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately” Microsoft plans to keep Anthropic's tools embedded in client products, after its lawyers determine the DOD's designation doesn't apply to non-defense projects OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities Sources: the US is considering requiring countries whose companies buy large volumes of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to invest in US AI infrastructure US federal regulators say banks don't need extra capital against losses when dealing with blockchain-based securities, calling their rules “technology neutral”