Pentagon reviewing Anthropic partnership over terms of use dispute
Source: The Hill
But now the Pentagon is close to cutting ties with Anthropic and labeling the San Francisco-based company as a supply chain risk, Axios reported Monday. The company wants to make sure that its tools are not used to develop weaponry that fires without human input and that its products are not used for mass surveillance on Americans.
Defense Department officials have argued that those terms would confine the U.S. military and make it more difficult to work under such conditions, the outlet noted.
The tensions were highlighted by the Pentagon’s Venezuela operations, which reportedly prompted Anthropic to inquire about whether its technology was used in the raid. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Claude was used through Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir, which has extensive military contracts. Anthropic has denied any outreach to the Pentagon or Palantir inquiring about the raid.
Anthropic’s contract with the Pentagon is valued at up to $200 million and was announced last July.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5740369-pentagon-anthropic-relationship-review/
From Mint:
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/pentagon-close-to-punishing-anthropic-ai-as-supply-chain-risk-over-claude-s-military-use-terms-report-11771284946408.html
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the company a “supply chain risk”, a senior Pentagon official told Axios — a move that would effectively penalise not only Anthropic but also any contractor that relies on its technology.
The same official described the prospective decision to Axios in blunt terms: “It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this.”
Pentagon's threatened “supply chain risk” designation for Anthropic AI is rarely deployed against domestic firms and is more commonly associated with entities linked to hostile foreign powers. Applying it to Anthropic would represent a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s push to ensure AI systems used by the military are available without restrictive conditions.
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From.Bloomberg via MSN:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/pentagon-is-close-to-cutting-ties-with-anthropic-report-says/ar-AA1WsFwW
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“The Department of War’s relationship with Anthropic is being reviewed,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in an emailed statement. “Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight. Ultimately, this is about our troops and the safety of the American people.”
Anthropic won a two-year agreement with the Pentagon last year that involved a prototype of Claude Gov models and Claude for Enterprise. The Anthropic negotiations may set the tone for talks with OpenAI, Google and xAI, which aren’t yet used for classified work, Axios said, citing people familiar with the discussions whom it didn’t identify.
A spokesman for OpenAI declined to comment and referred to a blog post outlining the company’s custom GenAI.mil tool for the Pentagon and other democratic countries. A representative for Google didn’t respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for X didn’t have an immediate comment.
Hegseth is a stupid, incompetent bully. He and Trump are security risks.
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