'The company had grown concerned in recent months about the government potentially using its AI tools, like Claude, in what it described as "mass surveillance" and "fully autonomous weapons". '

This is an incredibly inaccurate statement from BBC News. Those were the ethical terms of sale from Anthropic of their product, and they refused to budge or be bullied into changing them.

Genuinely stunned by how the BBC summarised this. "In what it described as?" Borders on devious misrepresentation.