WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 29: US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C) speaks during a Cabinet meeting and US President Donald Trump (L) and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (R) listen in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting as the Senate plans to vote on a spending package to avoid another government shutdown, although Democrats are considering a compromise on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo by Vin McNamee/Getty Images) | getty images
Can AI companies set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that would require it to loosen the guardrails on its AI models, allowing “any lawful use,” even mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous lethal weapons.
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael is pushing for Anthropic to be designated a “supply chain risk” if it doesn’t comply, a label typically only given to national security threats. Anthropic’s rivals OpenAI and
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk
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Trump orders federal agencies to remove Anthropic’s AI
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Even Ilya Sutskever considered the anthropogenic-Pentagon position.
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Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s new terms, stands firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI brother squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire
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Inside Anthropic’s existential conversation with the Pentagon
