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Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO and issue ultimatum as Pentagon threatens banishment.

“Claude is the only AI model available in the military's classified systems, and the most capable model for sensitive defense and intelligence work.

🔗 https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/hegseth-dario-pentagon-meeting-antrhopic-claude
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Scoop: Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO as Pentagon threatens banishment

Hegseth plans to present an ultimatu

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏📚 💻Feb 23

The Pentagon doesn't want to lose access to Claude, but is furious with Anthropic for refusing to lift its safeguards entirely. Anthropic is willing to loosen its existing usage restrictions,
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অর্ঘ্য 🏏📚 💻Feb 23

but Anthropic wants to wall off two areas:

(1) the mass surveillance of Americans, &

(2) the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.…
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অর্ঘ্য 🏏📚 💻

It would be a massive task to offboard Anthropic, which is deeply entrenched, and replace it with another AI lab that currently has inferior capabilities.”
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