It's Anthropic vs. OpenAI and the Pentagon in the AI wars, and San Francisco's chalk warriors have chosen their champion.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scrambling to head off a backlash over the tech giant’s deal with the Pentagon — defending it in front of workers at a tense all-hands meeting on Tuesday after protesters outside its San Francisco headquarters urged employees to quit,

Supporters have chalked messages of solidarity outside Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco and Claude has surged to #1 on Apple's app store following Anthropic's refusal to cooperate with the Pentagon's demand for unrestricted military use of its AI.

OpenAI will now supply its technology to the military for use in classified settings, the sorts that may involve wartime decisions and intelligence-gathering—an agreement, many legal experts told me,

Protesters gathered to skewer OpenAI at its San Francisco headquarters.

We visited OpenAI's new Bellevue office on opening day, toured the retro-modern space, and talked with CTO Vijaye Raji about Codex, culture, and the Seattle region's AI moment.

Representatives of countries that already cooperate with OpenAI or are interested in opportunities for such cooperation took part in the event, the embassy of Armenia in the US informed Armenian News-NEWS.