Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment

Axios: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a “supply chain risk” — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios.

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Anthropic and the Pentagon have held months of contentious negotiations over the terms under which the military can use Claude.

Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren’t used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement…