Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatens to invoke the Defense Production Act against Anthropic if CEO Dario Amodei does not grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its Claude AI by Friday, as Anthropic refuses to allow its model to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, forcing the Pentagon to urgently seek replacements from OpenAI, Google, and xAI.
The Pentagon has deployed Elon Musk's Grok AI in classified military systems and is pressuring Anthropic to allow its Claude model for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, threatening to label the company a 'supply chain risk' if it refuses, while simultaneously fast-tracking deals with Google and OpenAI as potential replacements.
The Pentagon threatens to terminate Anthropic's defense contracts after CEO Dario Amodei refuses to lift AI safeguards, as the military demands unrestricted access to Claude for classified systems while Anthropic holds firm against enabling mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic AI as a 'supply chain risk' over the company's refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI system, with Anthropic demanding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons while the Defense Department seeks 'all lawful purposes' access to the only AI model currently available in classified military systems.
Pentagon weighs $100 million contract between Musk's xAI and OpenAI for voice-powered autonomous drone swarms while threatening to blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' after the company refuses to relax safety restrictions on its Claude chatbot for military applications.
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Pentagon threatens to sever ties with Anthropic after the AI company refuses to remove safeguards preventing military use of its Claude model for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, while other tech giants show more flexibility in defense negotiations.
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