news is making the rounds that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to use the AI software produced by Anthropic for mass surveillance and AI-controlled weapons

allegedly, Anthropic isn't willing (yet) to comply

Hegseth is threatening to isolate the company from further gov. procurement

i'm going to guess Anthropic will yield

then there will be competition over who gets to sell broken, non-deterministic software for lethal use to the US government

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

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

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.

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The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

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