Pentagon Pressures Anthropic Over Model Guardrails

On Tuesday Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and demanded the company remove safety guardrails from its Claude model by Friday at 5:01 p.m., threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act or designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Anthropic had barred its tools from mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons and publishes an 84-page “constitution.” The standoff could force the company to abandon safety commitments or lose defense contracts.