Pete Hegseth Issues Anthropic Deadline Over Artificial Intelligence
Pete Hegseth issued a Friday deadline for Anthropic to remove safety restrictions or face the Defense Production Act.Dario Amodei refused to cross ethical red lines involving autonomous weapons and mass surveillance despite threats to a $200M contract.The dispute follows the use of Claude technology in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and criticism from Donald Trump officials over woke software.Anthropic is overhauling its scaling policy by replacing binary safety thresholds with roadmaps to compete with rivals like
xAI.