The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says

This is just sad. DoD relationship cratered because Anthropic said "we won't help with autonomous weapons." Now the Pentagon's funding alternatives because a vendor won't play ball. Classic government move: if someone won't compromise, fund competitors until someone does. Anthropic's probably right on the ethics. But they've just become less relevant to the biggest buyer in America. This accelerates the US/EU LLM split and probably helps open-source models that have no ethics to enforce.