Anthropic and the Pentagon are back at the negotiating table, FT reports
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Key Points:
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has resumed negotiations with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to resolve disputes over military use of the company’s AI models following a breakdown in talks last Friday.
- The talks follow President Trump’s directive to halt federal use of Anthropic’s tools and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s intention to designate the company as a national security supply-chain risk.
- Anthropic’s Claude AI model is already deployed in classified government networks under a $200 million DoD contract, but the company has sought restrictions against its use in domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, which the Pentagon opposes.
- OpenAI struck a new deal with the Pentagon amid the controversy, leading to public backlash and contrasting app usage
