Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth gives Anthropic Friday deadline to remove military AI restrictions or face potential blacklisting

Source: New York Post

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Anthropic boss Dario Amodei that he has until Friday evening to remove restrictions on how the US military can use the company’s Claude AI chatbot – or potentially face major penalties. Hegseth, who delivered the ultimatum during a high-stakes meeting in Washington, DC, on Tuesday afternoon, told Amodei that the Pentagon could blacklist Anthropic by declaring it a “supply chain risk,” a source familiar with the meeting told The Post. Alternatively, the Pentagon could use the Defense Production Act to effectively mandate that Anthropic allow use of Claude for all military purposes.