When the Pentagon attempted to strong-arm Anthropic over the company’s refusal to allow its model to be used for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons deployment, there were apparent standoffs behind the scenes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but the public push to punish Anthropic came from Emil Michael, the Trump administration’s Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer. According to a report from The Lever, he may have had some ulterior motives for how hard he pushed to ban the AI firm from government dealings.
A financial disclosure filed by Michael when he took office and spotted by The Lever revealed that he holds “vested and unvested stock” in Perplexity, an Anthropic rival, and…
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Source gizmodo.com
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