Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense have resumed negotiations over the military’s use of the company’s artificial intelligence models after talks collapsed last week, according to The Financial Times.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly negotiating with Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering. The discussions focus on the terms governing the military’s access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models.
Anthropic and the Pentagon are back at the negotiating table, FT reports https://t.co/hbaYzSfA0Z
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Negotiations broke down Friday after the Trump administration moved to halt federal use of Anthropic tools. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also warned the company could be labeled a supply chain risk to national security.
Anthropic previously secured a $200 million Pentagon contract, which allowed Claude to operate within classified government networks.
The company has sought limits preventing its AI from being used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. Pentagon officials have pushed for broader authority to deploy the technology for any lawful military use.
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