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

The OpenAI rival has options in its showdown with the Pentagon.

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline of 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday to agree to the removal of all safeguards, threatening to boot Claude from U.S. military systems ...

AI company Anthropic has blocked the Pentagon from using its technology to power fully autonomous weapons. Its CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement on Thursday that he “cannot in good conscience” ...

These are conflicting threats. The "supply chain risk" punishment would mean that Hegseth is cutting off Anthropic from the government. But invoking the Cold War-era Defense Production Act would be an ...

As well as designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, the government could also cancel its contract or invoke a Cold ...

In the conflict with Anthropic, Hegseth is once again taking a special interest in the problem of illegal orders ...

After refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands, the company faces what could be the most extreme regulation in the short history of AI.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's ultimatum to Anthropic over expanded Claude access could trigger a months-long AI capability ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, that if it doesn't turn over full use of the ...