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This morning, Anthropix CEO says his company will not give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI model, Claude
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given the company a deadline of today to grant access or face consequences
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Those consequences include canceling Anthropix's $200 million Defense Department contract, labeling the company a supply chain risk, and invoking the Defense Production Act
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In a statement, CEO Dario Amadei called that approach inherently contradictory. He writes
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Amadei says Anthropic will not drop its safeguards
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The company is seeking assurances that Claude would not be used for fully autonomous weapons
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or mass domestic surveillance. The Pentagon has not agreed to those terms
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though it notes that spying on Americans is illegal. Talks are continuing
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But according to Axios, the Pentagon on Wednesday asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin
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to detail how much they rely on Claude, a move seen as a first step toward formally designating anthropic a supply chain risk
