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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reportedly returned to the negotiating table with the Department of Defense in an attempt to salvage the company’s relationship with the US military and prevent it from being excluded from defense work for being a “supply chain risk.” Talks between the two parties collapsed on Friday after weeks of bitter public disagreement over the startup He refused to give the Pentagon unfettered access to its artificial intelligencewith competitors such as OpenAI is rushing to fill the void.
Amodei is in talks with Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael about a new contract that would allow the US military to continue using Anthropic’s Cloud AI models. According to Financial Timesciting unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Michael He attacked Amodei on social media Last week, amid a tense standoff over acceptable military uses of artificial intelligence, he called the executive a “liar” and a “God complex” and accused him of “endangering the safety of our nation.”
Securing a new deal may be a matter of survival for the US startup. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said he would appoint Anthropic A Supply chain risks on Friday, a category typically reserved for companies with ties to foreign governments that pose risks to U.S. national security. This designation will have a ripple effect throughout the US technology ecosystem, forcing companies to divest from Claude and sever ties with the company if they want to continue working on defense contracts.
A newly leaked memo sent by Amodei to Anthropy staff on Friday, was first reported by Information And he also saw footIt is likely to inflame already tense relations between the company and the Trump administration. He reportedly criticized Amodei in it OpenAI deal with the Pentagon He described it as “safety theater” and described the messages from both parties as “outright lies”.
Anthropic’s relationship with the federal government was strained because, unlike OpenAI or its executives, “we did not donate to Trump” and “we did not give Trump dictatorial-style praise,” Amodei noted. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is one of many Silicon Valley companies Heavyweights approach the transaction head Since returning to his position, co-founder Greg Brockman, also the longtime head of OpenAI Trump is a big donor.
In the memo, Amodei also said that the Ministry of Defense was close to accepting Anthropic’s terms:
“Toward the end of the negotiations, (management) offered to accept our existing terms if we deleted a specific phrase about ‘aggregated data analysis’ which was one line in the contract that exactly matched this scenario we were concerned about. We found that very suspicious.”
An ugly dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon has centered around the Defense Department’s insistence on carte blanche access to the company’s technology and the startup’s refusal to cede its rights. Two red lines For military use: There is no mass surveillance of Americans, no lethal autonomous weapons, and no artificial intelligence systems with the ability to kill. Without human supervision. Hegseth insisted that the AI technology used by the department must be available to “No legal use“, terms that Anthropic rejected amid concerns that it might cross these red lines. xAI and OpenAI have done so It is said Agree to those terms.