The San Francisco artificial intelligence company Anthropic is in a heated battle with the Pentagon, and the city’s sidewalks have spoken.
A video posted on X by famed venture capitalist Roy E. Bahat on Friday morning shows chalk writings on the sidewalk in front of the firm’s headquarters praising it for rebuffing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gain unfettered access to Anthropic’s AI model for military purposes.
“Thank you for defending our freedoms,” someone scrawled outside the building at 500 Howard St. “Have courage” and “God loves Anthropic” read two more…