PRESS DIGEST-Financial Times - March 5

March 5 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Headlines

- Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

- OpenAI pushes to add surveillance safeguards following Pentagon deal

- BBC to urge ministers to end political board appointments

- UK to further curtail rights of asylum seekers

Overview

- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reopened talks with the Pentagon in a last-ditch effort to secure a new AI contract and avoid being designated a supply-chain risk after negotiations collapsed over concerns about domestic surveillance uses.

- OpenAI is negotiating additional safeguards with the U.S. Defense Department intended to prevent mass surveillance of American citizens using its AI, as it implements the deal hastily announced on Friday.

- The BBC will urge ministers to commit to sweeping reforms, including the end of political appointments to its board, as part of plans to secure greater institutional independence in talks over its next royal charter.

- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will curtail asylum seekers' rights to accommodation and support as she doubles down on tougher immigration policies, in spite of pressure from backbench Labour MPs.