Explosive Silicon Valley dispute raises questions over AI giants’ willingness to help track Americans and fuel robot warfare

Explosive Silicon Valley dispute raises questions over AI giants’ willingness to help track Americans and fuel robot warfare

Bay Area artificial intelligence giant Anthropic was assailed by President Donald Trump as a company of “Left-wing nut jobs” after it sought to prevent certain uses of its technology by the U.S. military. The firm’s rival, AI titan OpenAI, promptly cut a deal with the Pentagon. The fracas embroiling the San Francisco AI companies over work for the U.S. military has highlighted Silicon Valley’s increasingly consequential contracts with the U.S. D…