Power ShiftTuesday, March 3, 2026

Pentagon Blacklists Anthropic Over AI Ethics While OpenAI Amends Rushed Defense Deal

Sourced from 9 publications

•The Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after the company refused to drop red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, according to The Verge and Techdirt.
•OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC the company "shouldn't have rushed" its Pentagon deal and was making additions to the contract.
•The amended OpenAI agreement includes protections against using AI for mass surveillance of Americans, the New York Times reported.
•Techdirt and The Verge questioned whether OpenAI's revised safeguards are substantively different from the protections Anthropic was blacklisted for insisting upon.
•Tech workers signed an open letter urging the Defense Department to withdraw Anthropic's supply chain risk designation, per TechCrunch.

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OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

New York Times

OpenAI's Sam Altman admits ‘rushed’ deal with Defense Department after backlash

Cnbc

The power struggle over AI red lines

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OpenAI's 'Red Lines' Are Written In The NSA's Dictionary—Where Words Mean What T...

Techdirt

No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government

TechCrunch

Anthropic and Alignment

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Tech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply chain ri...

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How the US hit Iran with a banned AI

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How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

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