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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropy CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reports from Axios.
The meeting comes at a time when the Pentagon threatens to announce an Anthropic Declaration.Supply chain risks— a designation typically reserved for foreign adversaries — after the artificial intelligence company refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its technology to mass surveil Americans and develop weapons that fire without human intervention.
Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense last summer, and so did Claude It is said It was used during the January 3 special operations raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an incident that brought tensions between the two sides into the open.
A source told Axios that Hegseth gave Amodei an ultimatum: Play ball or you will be exiled. It’s unclear whether he’s bluffing or not, as replacing Anthropic would be a big task. But the risks are real: Identifying supply chain risks could void Anthropic’s contract and force other Pentagon partners to abandon Claude entirely.