Trump says he fired Anthropic “like dogs” as negotiations with the Pentagon reportedly resumed

Donald Trump bragged about cutting ties between the U.S. military and Anthropic on the same day multiple reports said negotiations had resumed between the Defense Department and the AI ​​startup.

“Well, I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired (them) like dogs because they shouldn’t have done that,” Trump told Politico.

Trump on Friday ordered the entire federal government to stop using Anthropic’s technology, something the state and treasury departments have begun doing, according to their respective heads.

However, the termination may not be permanent. According to the Financial Times and Bloomberg, negotiations have resumed between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the military’s use of the company’s AI and the contract between the two. Anthropic’s products, which include the popular Claude chatbot and coding assistant, are integrated with Palantir’s Maven system, a newly important military intelligence tool that it says was used in the recent attacks on Iran…