Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

(Dave Lawler, Maria Curi – Axios) The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm’s insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models, a senior administration official told Axios. Why it matters: The Pentagon is pushing four leading AI labs to let the military use their tools for “all lawful purposes,” even in the most sensitive areas of weapons development, intelligence collection, and battlefield operations. Anthropic has not agreed to those terms, and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations. – Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute