Update: President Trump announced Friday that he’s ordering federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology, with six months to phase it out, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk.
The U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is teetering on the edge of collapse as the company and a top Pentagon official trade barbs on the eve of a deadline to reach a deal.
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday at 5:01 p.m. to either let the military use the company’s AI model for “all lawful purposes” or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract. The AI startup has sought guardrails that explicitly bar its powerful Claude model from being used to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or carry out military operations on its own.
The Pentagon’s chief technology officer Emil Michael told CBS News on Thursday that the military has “made some very good concessions” in
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