Asked about the mayor’s letter and his offer, a White House spokesperson told the BBC: “As President Trump said, we will never allow a radical left, woke company to dictate how our United States Military fights wars”. <\/p>\n
The BBC has contacted Anthropic. A spokesperson for the Mayor’s office told the BBC that there have been discussions this week with “senior leaders” of the company. <\/p>\n
In talks with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Amodei took issue with the prospect of having Anthropic’s Claude model used to conduct mass domestic surveillance or autonomous military targeting.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon has said the military must be able to use technology “for all lawful purposes” and argued those feared uses would violate the law and were not planned. <\/p>\n
Last week, US President Donald Trump said he would direct every federal agency to immediately stop using technology from AI developer Anthropic.<\/p>\n
“I applaud your steadfastness in the face of such pressure,” Sir Khan wrote. “[I]t would be good to discuss how we could support you to expand operations further.”<\/p>\n
He added that London “could provide an even more significant location and platform for the future of Anthropic”.<\/p>\n
Sir Sadiq’s letter could position London as a viable alternative for Anthropic as the company’s relationship with the US government continues to deteriorate.<\/p>\n
The AI developer had been in negotiations with the Department of Defense but on Thursday, Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael said talks were off.<\/p>\n
“I want to end all speculation: there is no active [Department of War] negotiation with [Anthropic],” Michael wrote on X.<\/p>\n
The Department of War is a secondary name given by Trump to the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon’s designation is the first time a US company has been labelled a supply chain risk, which means the government considers Anthropic not secure enough for it to use.<\/p>\n
When the Pentagon first threatened the designation, insiders at Anthropic feared it might affect the company’s business with partners that also conduct business with the US government.<\/p>\n
So far, those fears appear unfounded.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, tech giant Microsoft said that it would continue to embed Anthropic technology in products for its clients, with an exception carved out for the US Department of Defense.<\/p>\n
“Our lawyers have studied the designation and have concluded that Anthropic products, including Claude, can remain available to our customers,” Microsoft told the BBC in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked about the mayor’s letter and his offer, a White House spokesperson told the BBC: “As President Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-462690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}