The Pentagon is pressuring AI companies to allow the US military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes”, but Anthropic is pushing back. A new report in Axios.
The government is reportedly demanding the same from OpenAI, Google and xAI. An anonymous Trump administration official told Axios that one of those companies has agreed, while the other two have reportedly shown some flexibility.
Anthropic, meanwhile, has reportedly been the most resistant. In response, the Pentagon is apparently threatening to end its $200 million contract with the AI company.
In January, The Wall Street Journal reported There were significant disagreements between Anthropic and Defense Department officials over how its cloud model could be used. WSJ later said Cloud was used in US military operations To capture Nicolas Maduro, the then President of Venezuela.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for the company told Axios that the company “has not discussed the use of the cloud for specific missions with the War Department” but rather “is focused on a specific set of usage policy questions — namely, our hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.”
