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Anthropic Denies Federal Agencies Use of Claude for Surveillance Tasks

3 months 1 week ago
Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage policies prohibit domestic surveillance, limiting how agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deploy its technology. While Anthropic maintains a $1 contract with federal agencies through AWS GovCloud and works with the Department of Defense on non-weapons applications, administration officials said the restrictions amount to making moral judgments about law enforcement operations.

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Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

3 months 1 week ago
Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years

Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

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Nvidia And Hyperscaler Friends Do Massive AI Deals In The UK

3 months 1 week ago

As adoption of generative AI, agentic AI, and all other AIs expands around the globe, a focus in the industry can enable nations to more closely use its own infrastructure, workforces, and data to control, create, and deploy AI models. …

Nvidia And Hyperscaler Friends Do Massive AI Deals In The UK was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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