David Brancaccio

And the stock price of Rolls-Royce is up 4.5% in London now, with profits up 40%.

This isn't the 1% buying sweet new rides.

Rolls, the car.

That company's been owned by BMW of Germany for about three decades.

Rolls-Royce is now about turbines, jets, and power plants.

Marketplace Morning Report from APM, American Public Media.

When business ethics and the military's view on national security come into conflict.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic is loosening some of its core safety principles.

This at the same time the company faces pressure from the Pentagon to roll back limitations on how Anthropic's Claude AI models are used.

Marketplace and Nancy Marshall-Genzer is here now with some details.

Now, there's also pressure from the administration on related matters.

What's the Pentagon's concern?

And Hegseth has other tools to pressure Anthropic via what, its business partners?

Nancy Marshall-Genzer out of Washington.

For the AI microchip maker NVIDIA, it was like winning an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Nobel Prize all at the same time, and then your audience says, all right, but what else you got?

The company posted blockbuster quarterly profits late yesterday, with revenue up 73%, with predictions the next quarter should be higher than that.

Yet, in pre-market trading now, NVIDIA's stock is up only a little.

One puzzled analyst said, maybe investors are frozen with shock about how good things are over there.

Alternate explanation, the realization that trees don't grow to the sky, that eventually there has to be some limit to the AI mania.