{"id":201839,"date":"2026-02-28T05:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-blasts-ai-company-for-standing-firm-on-safety-guardrails-us-military-wants-lifted-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:45:27","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-blasts-ai-company-for-standing-firm-on-safety-guardrails-us-military-wants-lifted-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-blasts-ai-company-for-standing-firm-on-safety-guardrails-us-military-wants-lifted-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president blasts AI company for standing firm on safety guardrails US military wants lifted – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic has resisted allowing its Claude AI system to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems \u2013 key US politics stories from Friday, 27 February at a glance
Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday he will direct all federal agencies to \u201cIMMEDIATELY CEASE\u201d all use of artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic.
The US Department of Defense and Anthropic hit an impasse with neither side backing down as a deadline for an agreement lapsed on Friday afternoon. The Pentagon had demanded the AI company loosen ethical guidelines on its systems or face severe consequences.
US defense officials have for weeks been pushing for unfettered access to the company\u2019s Claude AI system\u2019s capabilities that they say can help protect the country, while Anthropic has resisted<\/a> allowing its product to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input.
\u201cAnthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner,\u201d Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement this week. \u201cHowever, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.\u201d
Trump evidently did not appreciate Anthropic\u2019s red line. \u201cWE will decide the fate of our Country \u2013 NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The public showdown began earlier this week when the Department of Defense and Anthropic entered into discussions about the military\u2019s use of the company\u2019s Claude AI system.<\/em> But the talks broke down as both sides appeared to be unable to come to agreement over safety guardrails.
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Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s likely casus belli<\/em> for an attack on Iran<\/a> \u2013 which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq<\/a> war \u2013 is fraught with contradictions, and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
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Trump on Friday said: \u201cThey have no money, they have no anything right now. But they\u2019re talking with us and maybe we\u2019ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.\u201d
The president\u2019s comments come as relations between the two countries have sunk to among their worst in an often bitter 67-year history. The US has cranked up pressure on Cuba\u2019s struggling regime following its successful abduction of Venezuelan president and Cuba ally Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> in January.
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The US secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/a> told ambassadors in the Middle East to stop making public comments that could inflame tensions and undermine Donald Trump\u2019s pressure on Iran to relinquish its capacity to produce a nuclear weapon, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.
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Former president Bill Clinton gave a deposition Friday to a congressional committee investigating his links to Jeffrey Epstein, one day after Hillary Clinton testified before the committee and called the proceedings \u201cpartisan political theatre<\/a>\u201d and \u201can insult to the American people\u201d.
During remarks before the House oversight committee on Thursday, Hillary Clinton<\/a>, the former secretary of state, insisted that she had never met Epstein.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
As more health systems end gender-affirming care for patients amid a crackdown from the Trump administration<\/a>, scientists and advocates say the science of sex and gender is being misrepresented \u2013 and will have major repercussions for the healthcare of all Americans.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are taking a closer look at US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s connection to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, after the justice department\u2019s website restored a photo<\/a> showing him with the disgraced financier on his private island.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Pakistan <\/a>has bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital, Kabul<\/a><\/strong>, with Islamabad\u2019s defence minister declaring that the hostile neighbours were in a state of \u201copen war\u201d as a cycle of retaliatory attacks escalated further<\/a>.
Federal authorities have arrested more people on Friday for their alleged involvement in a protest at a church in Minnesota in January<\/a><\/strong>, following earlier arrests of organizers and journalists amid sweeping, and often violent, immigration enforcement efforts in the state.
Two days after the FBI searched the headquarters<\/a> of the Los Angeles<\/a> unified school district and the home of its superintendent, the district board of education placed Alberto Carvalho on administrative leave<\/a><\/strong>.
A veteran CBS<\/a> News producer who is leaving the network after 46 years <\/a>has suggested that political bias is at play at the network<\/a><\/strong> in a farewell memo sent to colleagues on Friday afternoon.
Nasa<\/a> announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon<\/a><\/strong>, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Thursday, 26 February<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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