In what appears to be preparations to fully blacklist Anthropic for not budging on their acceptable use policies, the Defense Department has begun reaching out to contractors to assess their exposure to the AI company’s products. Boeing and Lockheed Martin, two of the biggest companies in the defense space, have reportedly been contacted.
It’s more than just a $200 million military contract at stake.
Prediction: This is going to be a mess for the Trump right.
Plus: DC thinks Bezos is a bastard; Newsmax goes to war with Nexstar; and more in this week’s Regulator.
Apparently, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon did not take kindly to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong accusing them of ruining the Clarity Act, and interrupted Armstrong’s coffee date with Tony Blair to say so:
“You are full of s—,” said Dimon, a longtime crypto skeptic who previously called bitcoin a fraud, his index finger pointed squarely at Armstrong’s face. Dimon, in a nutshell, told him to stop lying on TV, according to people familiar with the conversation.
[The Wall Street Journal]
