The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the US military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but Anthropic is pushing back, according to a new report in Axios.
The government is reportedly making the same requirement for OpenAI, Google and xAI. An anonymous Trump administration official told Axios that one of those companies has agreed, while the other two have allegedly shown some flexibility.
Anthropic, meanwhile, has reportedly been the most resistant. In response, the Pentagon is apparently threatening to pull the plug on its $200 million contract with the AI company.
In January, The Wall Street Journal reports this that there was significant disagreement between Anthropic and Department of Defense officials over how the Claude models could be used. The WSJ subsequently said so Claude was used in the US Army operation to capture then Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
A company spokesperson told Axios that the company “has not discussed the use of Claude for specific operations with the War Department,” but is instead “focused on a specific set of questions about usage policy – namely our hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.”
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