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What Happened Between OpenAI and Anthropic at the Pentagon?

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At the end of February, OpenAI’s C.E.O., Sam Altman, made headlines by cutting a deal with the Pentagon for his company to replace Anthropic, which had balked at the Trump Administration’s bid to use its A.I. technology to power autonomous weapons and aid in mass surveillance. Days earlier, Altman had publicly supported Anthropic’s position in the dispute. Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz, who recently wrote an investigative piece into Altman and his rise to power, talk to David Remnick on #NewYorkerRadio about why he changed his stance and what the dangerous implications of this deal.

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