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Why negotiations between Anthropic and the Defense Department broke down

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon, after its negotiations with rival company Anthropic fell through.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent for Axios, about how the Anthropic deal fell apart and what will come next in this artificial intelligence saga.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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