Pentagon Pressures Anthropic Over Claude Safeguards

The Pentagon has signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate its Grok chatbot into classified military systems, a move first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by Axios on Monday. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei this week, demanding Claude be made available without additional safeguards or face a potential supply-chain risk designation.