Pentagon gives Anthropic Friday deadline to drop AI safeguards on autonomous weapons, mass surveillance or lose $200M contract; threatens blacklist designation typically reserved for foreign adversaries like China, Russia

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract. He also threatened to put the AI company on what could amount to a government blacklist. At issue is the guardrails Anthropic placed on its AI model Claude. The Pentagon, which has a $200 million contract with Anthropic, wants the company to lift its restrictions for the military to be able to use the model for “all l...