Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Heads to White House Hoping to End Pentagon AI Fight

Axios reports that the scheduled Friday meeting at the West Wing represents a significant development in Anthropic’s attempts to resolve a bitter dispute with the Department of Defense that has resulted in the company being blacklisted from certain government contracts. The conflict centers on restrictions regarding how the Pentagon can utilize Anthropic’s AI systems. The Trump administration has taken note of…

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Montana Supreme Court Allows Trans People to Have IDs That Match ‘Gender Identity’

The state’s high court ruled 5-2 on Tuesday to uphold a lower court’s preliminary injunction of a 2022 policy that mandates Montanans have birth certificates and IDs that match their biological sex. The court ruled that the policy likely goes against the state constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” the…

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