The Pentagon threatened to designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” due to the company’s refusal to authorize its AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Defense officials criticized the startup as “ideological” after it questioned the use of its Claude model during a recent military operation in Venezuela. The Department of Defense is reportedly negotiating with OpenAI, Google, and xAI to replace the technology as it is pushing for unrestricted access to models for battlefield operations.
