Deadline looms as Anthropic rejects Pentagon demands it remove AI safeguards

Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/Associated Press

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The Pentagon is headed for a showdown with Anthropic, one of the world’s most powerful AI companies, over the military use of its AI model after Anthropic’s CEO rejected the Defense Department’s ultimatum that it loosen safety restrictions or be blacklisted from lucrative military work.

At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most

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