Altman and OpenAI are now in damage control mode after their decision last week to strike deal with the Pentagon for access to its AI models after their rival Anthropic refused to agree to the government's terms. It's become a fast-moving story filled with contract negotiations, optics management, and a tipping of the scales in the chatbot wars as the public has watched it all unfold, voting with their downloads and wallets.
We exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government. Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world, and we are patriots in everything we have done here. We have stood up for the values of this country.
Miliband provokes rightwing journalists and voters like no other minister, evoking comparisons to the relentless targeting faced by socialist Tony Benn in the 1970s.