Hegseth and Anthropic CEO meet over military AI use

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its AI, or lose its Pentagon contract. Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to open its AI technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract. That's according to a person familiar with the meeting who was not authorized to speak about it publicly. The Defense Department did not immediately comment. Hegseth met Tuesday with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whose company makes the chatbot Claude and remains the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network.