MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Anthropic Sues Pentagon Terbaru 2025

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Anthropic Sues Pentagon Hari Ini

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei picked a major fight with the Department of Defense last month, asserting that his company’s AI models couldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or direct autonomous weapons systems.

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and president Donald Trump lambasted Amodei for dictating what they could or couldn’t do with the company’s tech. They quickly announced that the company would be labeled a supply chain risk “effective immediately,” in sanctions conventionally reserved for companies from adversary countries.

It was an unprecedented move that sent shockwaves across Silicon Valley, with a coalition of tech industry groups signing a public letter condemning the decision. Even Amodei’s top rival, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, argued that the Trump administration had overstepped by labelling Anthropic’s tech non grata. Anthropic risks losing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of US government contracts.

While Amodei has since issued an apology for pushing back against Trump in a note to staffers that was leaked to The Information, Anthropic is now ready to challenge the White House’s latest designation in court. As Wired reports, Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the Pentagon on Monday, challenging its move to label it a “supply chain risk.”

As Amodei noted in his blog post, “we do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court.”

In the company’s lawsuit, filed in a California court, it argues that White House officials acted unconstitutionally and out of retaliation.

“The Constitution does not allow ​the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech,” the lawsuit reads. “Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the Executive’s unlawful campaign of retaliation.”

But experts believe Anthropic may have a very difficult road ahead.

For one, “it’s 100 percent in the government’s prerogative to set the parameters of a contract,” Snell & Winter partner Brett Johnson told Wired, effectively meaning there may be very little chance of an appeal.

Johnson argued it’s in Anthropic’s best interest to argue in court that it was singled out among the US government’s other AI contractors.

While the Pentagon has officially ratified its decision to name Anthropic a supply chain risk, the company’s Claude chatbot continues to be widely used in the US war on Iran, meaning the Department of Defense is now using compromised tech by its own admission.

Government agencies outside of the military have revealed they would immediately follow the direction of the president and stop using Claude. A Microsoft spokesperson also told Wired that it will continue to offer the chatbot to all other agencies, except for the Defense Department.

The lawsuit may greatly complicate efforts to bury the hatchet.

“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences,” Amodei wrote in his apology. “We both are committed to advancing US national security and defending the American people, and agree on the urgency of applying AI across the government.”

But the lawsuit itself takes a dramatically different tone. The Trump administration’s actions “are as unlawful as they are unprecedented,” the document reads, calling out Hegseth specifically for sidestepping Congress.

“The Challenged Actions inflict immediate and irreparable harm on Anthropic,” the lawsuit reads. “On others whose speech will be chilled; on those benefiting from the economic value the company can continue to create; and on a global public that deserves robust dialogue and debate on what AI means forwarfare and surveillance.”

More on the fight: Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: RTX’s hybrid aviation system passes test with engine, batterie

RTX has reached a key milestone in its hybrid-electric propulsion project, successfully running its system’s engine and batteries at full power for the first time.

The Virginia-based aerospace and defense conglomerate aims to deliver a 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency over current advanced regional turboprops with its Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstrator. The successful test could pave the way for more fuel-efficient, greener regional aircraft.

RTX eyes electrified regional flights

Electric aviation systems have great potential with their high torque, great efficiency, and zero emissions. However, these systems have a far lower energy density when compared with traditional internal combustion engines.

Electric systems are far too heavy to power a long-haul flight. Instead, companies like RTX are looking to start off electrifying shorter regional flights as they mature their technology.

RTX performed its latest test at a Pratt & Whitney Canada facility near Montreal. The company’s Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstrator features a thermal engine from Pratt & Whitney Canada, a 1-megawatt electric motor from Collins Aerospace, and a 200-kilowatt-hour battery system from Swiss startup H55.

While operating, the thermal engine handles cruise phases, while the electric motor assists during taxi, takeoff, and climb, drawing power from the batteries.

As RTX points out in a press statement, thermal engines typically convert 30-40 percent of fuel into useful energy, with the rest lost to heat and friction. Electrical systems, meanwhile, achieve over 90 percent efficiency.

RTX has stated its system will be installed on a modified De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 for flight testing. To make these tests possible, the company’s engineers have addressed major challenges, including battery weight and high-voltage management. To reduce weight, the team used advanced materials, wide band-gap semiconductors, and high-density magnets.

“We have some of the highest power density motors and motor controllers across the industry that we’re developing right now,” Joshua Parkin, Collins Aerospace engineering director explained in a press statement. “Every pound, every kilogram, it counts.”

Addressing high-voltage management

Hybrid-electric propulsion for regional aircraft requires thousands of battery cells. These are linked together and operate at high voltage levels. While this leads to an efficient system, it also creates a risk of overheating or electrical arcing, where electricity jumps out of the battery in the form of a miniature lightning bolt.

“The voltage level we’re using for our system surpasses anything that’s in production right now in aviation,” noted David Venditti, Pratt & Whitney’s program manager.

To address the issue of high-voltage management, the team added safety features into its battery design, including a fireproof enclosure for venting gases.

Crucially, RTX’s battery system is also based on startup H55’s flight-proven technology. According to H55 it has flight-tested its technology on a smaller aircraft with over 2,000 incident-free hours of electric flight time, providing a solid, certified foundation. Next, RTX will continue to perform ground and flight testing in a bid to bring electric flight closer to reality.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com