Anthropic has reservations about how its technology will be used. But Pete Hegseth has given the AI firm until Friday to agree to the Defence Department’s terms.

Claude, Anthropic's AI chatbot, has sparked major selling of US tech stocks as its capabilities induce fear among investors of widespread disruption.

Anthropic PBC is expanding the reach of its Claude chatbot into new sectors, weeks after the startup sparked a market meltdown with the release of tools that raised questions about AI’s

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.

DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax created more than 16 million interactions with Claude using roughly 24,000 fake accounts, the U.S. company said in a blog post.

Dean Ball, senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and former senior policy advisor on AI in Trump’s White House, told TechCrunch that the lack of redundancy is the reason for the Pentagon’s aggressive stance. “The DOD has no backups. This is a single-vendor situation here,” he said. “They can’t fix that overnight.”

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork in a research capacity last month, rattling software stocks as investors grappled with AI's disruptive potential. The company said Claude Cowork's new updates mark its transition into a true enterprise-grade product.

Just weeks after its AI tools shook software stocks, Anthropic is pushing even deeper into the workplace. The company is updating its Claude AI helper to perform better at tasks within specific jobs,