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Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.

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Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-ch...

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