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The US Department of Defense and Anthropic are locked in a dispute over military use of Claude AI. After a meeting between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth failed to resolve differences, the Pentagon threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel Anthropic's compliance, declare the company a supply chain risk, and terminate a $200M contract. Anthropic's red lines include prohibiting autonomous weapons targeting and domestic surveillance. Simultaneously, Anthropic released its Responsible Scaling Policy v3, which notably drops a prior pledge to halt AI training if safety couldn't be guaranteed—citing competitive pressures—raising questions about whether the company may ultimately yield to Pentagon demands.

Anthropic, DoD face off over acceptable military AI use