The Pentagon is reportedly close to designating Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’ — a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries — over the company’s refusal to grant the military broad permissions to use Claude. Defense officials want AI available for ‘all lawful purposes’; Anthropic is holding the line against uses like spying on Americans or building autonomous weapons. Claude is currently the only AI on Pentagon classified systems and was reportedly used via Palantir in the Maduro capture in January. The standoff is a landmark moment in the fight over who controls how frontier AI gets deployed in warfare. Via The Rundown AI. Read more