A battle is brewing inside the Pentagon that could determine the future of American military strategy.
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged to cut ties with Anthropic—one of the two AI providers authorized by the Pentagon for classified use—unless the company removed all safeguards from Claude by Friday. This comes after a January memo, in which Hegseth directed the department to only "utilize [AI] models free from usage policy constraints that may limit lawful military applications." On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused Hegseth's ultimatum.
