Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

Source: Axios and Bloomberg

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Defense Secretary Hegseth (right) and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine during the Maduro raid, in which Claude was used. Photo: Molly Riley/White House via Getty

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned.

The big picture: Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs.

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