Anthropic Sees Support From Other Tech Workers in Feud With Pentagon

The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia.

Photographer: Tom Brenner/Bloomberg

Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon over how the military can use artificial intelligence.

Two coalitions of workers – including employees of Amazon.com Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI – are asking their companies to join Anthropic in refusing to comply with Defense Department demands for unrestricted use of AI products.