The CEO of Anthropic says his company refused to allow its technology to be used by the Trump Administration without certain guidelines (such as not using its AI to power fully-autonomous weapons without any human involvement).

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

When Hegseth and Amodei met Tuesday, military officials warned that they could designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, cancel its contract or invoke a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to give the military more sweeping authority to use its products, even if the company doesn’t approve.

The Pentagon gave Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, an ultimatum that will expire at 5:01 p.m. on Friday.

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into the military “kill chain” represents a significant shift in modern warfare Could the secret weapon behind the success of the recent joint

The Pentagon has reportedly asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to detail their reliance on Anthropic’s Claude chatbot ahead of a Friday deadline for the AI firm to either relax its safeguards or face blacklisting.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal, sparking backlash and shifting some users' loyalties to Anthropic's rival Claude chatbot.

Here's yet another troubling story about this "golden" era of AI. A hacker has exploited Anthropic's Claude chatbot to carry out attacks against Mexican government agencies, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The two companies have been publicly taking jabs at each other as they contend in the race to dominate AI.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was set to hold a high-stakes meeting with Anthropic boss Dario Amodei on Tuesday as they have been trying to navigate rising tensions over military use of the Claude AI chatbot.