Anthropic Rejects Pentagon's Terms For Claude

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Tuesday the company "cannot in good conscience accede" to a Defense Department demand that it accept the military's terms for use of its Claude model, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned of possible blacklisting. The dispute centers on concerns about lethal-autonomy and mass-surveillance uses, prompting calls for clearer government-industry governance of frontier AI models.