Pete Hegseth seeks a Pyrrhic victory against Anthropic

Defense secretary uses heavy handed threats to relax AI guardrails. If he wins this battle, he’ll lose the war.

By Editorial Board

Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities. The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, ...

By Nick Robins-Early

Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech. Defense officials in the Trump administration warned they could designate Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, as a supply chain risk — or invoke a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to give the military more sweeping authority to use its products, even if the company doesn’t approve. FRANCE 24's Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles.

By FRANCE24

Anthropic CEO says company cannot accede to Pentagon's request in AI safeguards dispute