The Pentagon is actively building replacement AI tools after its contract with Anthropic collapsed over disagreements on unrestricted military access to the AI. Pentagon chief digital and AI officer Cameron Stanley confirmed engineering work has begun on multiple LLMs for government-owned environments. The fallout stems from Anthropic's refusal to allow uses like mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, while the DoD has since signed agreements with OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI (Grok). Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively barring Pentagon contractors from working with the company, a designation Anthropic is now challenging in court.
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