Pentagon AI Anthropic
FILE - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stands outside the Pentagon during a welcome ceremony for the Japanese defense minister at the Pentagon in Washington, Jan. 15, 2026.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract. Defense officials warned Tuesday that they could designate Anthropic a supply chain risk or use the Defense Production Act to essentially give the military more authority to use its products even if it doesn’t approve of how they are used. That’s according to a person familiar with the meeting and a senior Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Anthropic makes the chatbot Claude and is the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network.
