How US government’s chip shortage problem may be ‘good news for’ Anthropic which it has designated ‘national security threat’
A critical shortage of advanced computer hardware has forced the US government to deepen its reliance on Anthropic – the artificial intelligence (AI) company that the Pentagon has officially blacklisted as a national security supply chain threat. According to a report by The New York Times, to work around the chips shortage, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue to use an advanced model made by Anthropic.
The report said that the compromise was revealed following a secret $9 billion emergency funding request approved by the White House, which is designed to help America’s premier spy agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the NSA, secure the high-end semiconductors required to run the latest generation of generative AI models on top-secret, classified networks.
