Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s latest offer in AI dispute

Washington | Anthropic boss Dario Amodei said he “could not in good conscience comply” with the Pentagon’s demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology, deepening his company’s public conflict with the Trump administration, which is threatening to terminate its contract and take further drastic steps by Friday (Saturday AEDT).

The maker of the AI ​​chatbot Claude said in a statement it would not abandon negotiations but that the Defense Department’s new contract language had made “virtually no progress in preventing Claude’s use in mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.”

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