The line is coordination without targeting, not abstention.
Development
Anthropic pitched the drone swarm contest it had drawn a line against
Claim
Anthropic itself pitched the Pentagon's $100 million drone swarm contest, proposing Claude to coordinate drone fleets while excluding autonomous targeting, and was not selected, while Altman admitted OpenAI's rush to a Pentagon deal looked opportunistic and sloppy and added Fourth Amendment safeguards as users cancelled.
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