Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured
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Months of email over safety guardrails turning into a soured Pentagon relationship shows how fragile AI–defense alignment is when values and timelines diverge. If you’re selling frontier models into government, expect contract risk around safety posture to be as material as pricing or performance.
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