... Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him. Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have ... ... been preferring Claude lately, feels like it's pulling ahead, but I'm sure it'll keep swinging back and forth. Perplexity is looking really solid too. Comment from Serge Punchev(@spunchev): I build on the Claude API. The Pentagon