{"id":205223,"date":"2026-03-05T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205223\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:02:27","slug":"watch-protesters-rally-in-san-francisco-against-openai-deal-with-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205223\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Protesters rally in San Francisco against OpenAI deal with Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protesters outside OpenAI&#8217;s headquarters in San Francisco said they were rallying against the deal CEO Sam Altman&#8217;s company had made with the Pentagon, saying they didn&#8217;t &#8216;trust the people at the top.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contract between OpenAI and the Pentagon was signed on 27 February, hours after Donald Trump issued a statement ordering federal agencies to cease use of AI competitor, Anthropic&#8217;s Claude. The number of people uninstalling ChatGPT has surged since the news of the contract was announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The negotiation between the Pentagon and Anthropic had broken down because the OpenAI rival sought contractual guarantees against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After backlash, Altman called the initial deal &#8216;opportunistic and sloppy&#8217;, and vowed to amend the contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3rz1nd0egro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters outside OpenAI&#8217;s headquarters in San Francisco said they were rallying against the deal CEO Sam Altman&#8217;s company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-205223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}