Pete Hegseth Sets Friday AI Deadline for Anthropic over $200M Deal
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected Pentagon demands to remove artificial intelligence safety guardrails from the Claude model ahead of a Friday deadline.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to designate the firm a supply chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act to seize the technology.Policy experts describe these measures as the most aggressive regulatory actions taken by the Donald Trump administration against a domestic firm.While competitors like
OpenAI and
Google have accepted the terms,
Dario Amodei argues that removing safety limits could lead to crimes against humanity.