$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions

Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the Pentagon presses for broader military use of Claude.The post $200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions appeared first on eWEEK.

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Pete Hegseth Demands Anthropic Drop AI Safety Guardrails https://gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth-anthropic-abandon-ai-safeguards-or-national-security-threat-2000726145

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more extortion from this administration?? gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth...

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The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

10 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Happy to see Anthropic stand their ground..."Anthropic doesn’t want its technology used for mass surveillance of Americans or for fully autonomous weapons — and is refusing to compromise on these points with the Pentagon." Good!! Hope others f

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