Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accused OpenAI of using safety theater and mendacious messaging to secure a contract with the Pentagon. A leaked memo reveals Anthropic refused a similar deal due to ethical boundaries regarding mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon subsequently labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk before partnering with OpenAI.
OpenAI is reportedly developing a competitor to GitHub, the code-hosting platform owned by its primary investor, Microsoft. Frequent service outages at GitHub disrupted OpenAI developers and prompted the internal shift. This development places the AI leader in direct competition with its most significant corporate partner.