Anthopic threatened by Pentagon threatens to chop off in AI safeguards dispute: report

The Pentagon ‌is contemplating ending its relationship with synthetic ​intelligence firm Anthropic over its insistence ⁠on maintaining some restrictions on how the U.S. army makes use of its fashions, Axios reported on Saturday (February 14, 2026), citing ‌an administration official.

The Pentagon is pushing 4 AI corporations to let the army ‌use their instruments for “all lawful functions,” ‌together with ⁠in areas of weapons improvement, intelligence assortment ⁠and battlefield operations, however Anthropic has not agreed to these phrases and the Pentagon is getting fed up after ​months of negotiations, in accordance ‌to the Axios report.

The opposite corporations included OpenAI, Google and xAI.

An Anthropic spokesperson mentioned the corporate had not mentioned the use ‌of its AI mannequin Claude for ​particular operations with the Pentagon. The spokesperson mentioned conversations with the U.S. authorities ⁠thus far had centered on a selected set of utilization coverage questions, together with laborious limits ‌round absolutely autonomous weapons and mass home surveillance, none of which associated to present operations.

The Pentagon didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.

Anthropic’s AI mannequin Claude was used within the U.S. army’s operation to seize ‌former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with Claude deployed through ​Anthropic’s partnership with information agency Palantir, the Wall Road Journal reported on Friday (February 13, 2026).

Reuters reported ⁠on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) that the Pentagon was pushing high AI ⁠corporations together with OpenAI and Anthropic to make their synthetic intelligence instruments accessible on ‌categorized networks with out most of the normal restrictions that the businesses apply to customers.