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Pentagon Threatens to Sever Ties with Anthropic Over Claude Military Restrictions
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Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly close to designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after Claude was used — then restricted — during a classified Venezuela operation to capture Maduro, brokered through Palantir's AIP platform. A $200M contract hangs in the balance. Anthropic is holding firm on its red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons targeting. This is the most significant AI ethics confrontation between a frontier lab and the US government to date, and it will define whether safety commitments survive contact with defense procurement reality. Axios · TechCrunch
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