Pentagon Threatens to Banish Anthropic as Hegseth Issues Ultimatum
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February 24, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday for what sources describe as a make-or-break confrontation over the military’s use of the company’s Claude artificial intelligence model — until very recently the only AI cleared for use on the US military’s classified networks. The meeting caps months of deteriorating […]
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