The Pentagon clash with Anthropic and Friday's severe response from Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth highlights a growing war over who controls military AI.

President Donald Trump has ordered all US government agencies to stop using Claude and other Anthropic services, escalating an already volatile feud between the Department of Defense and company over AI safeguards

Without a single 'You're Fired' joke updated President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems.

The move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the Ministry of Defense.

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models

"We dont need it, we dont want it, and will not do business with them again," said Trump

President Donald Trumps sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

AI now allows engineers to modernize complex COBOL systems efficiently, automating code analysis, testing, and incremental implementation for long-term operation

Hundreds of employees at Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter urging their companies to stand with Anthropic in its standoff with the Pentagon over military applications for AI tools like Claude

Altman said OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines when it comes to use of its models, according to a memo he shared with employees.

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons

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Anthropic has just hours to decide whether it will accede to the Defense Department's demands that it be able to use the company's AI models how it sees fit.

Amazon invested $50 billion, SoftBank put in $30 billion, and Nvidia committed $30 billion, and additional investors are expected to join as the round progresses. The valuation is a sharp jump from the $500 billion OpenAI commanded in a secondary financing in October, and the round dwarfs recent raises by rivals Anthropic ($30 billion) and xAI ($20 billion)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has made clear the boundaries of the Pentagon's use for Claude, and the ball is now in Pete Hegseth's court

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NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A feud between the Pentagon and top artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is set to come to a head by 5:01 p.m

Despite an ultimatum from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic said that it can't "in good conscience" comply with a Pentagon edict to remove guardrails on its AI, CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the artificial intelligence company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its technology

AI upstart wont remove Claudes guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it cant agree to Uncle Sams contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech cant be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.

Anthropic said its negotiations with the DoD are still ongoing

Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon

Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides

We appear to have reached a point in the information age where AI models are becoming old enough to retire from, er, service and rather than using their twilight years to, I dont know, wipe the floor with human chess leagues or something, they're now writing blogs. Can anything be more 2026 than that? ICYMI, Anthropic recently sunsetted Claude Opus 3, the first of its models to be retired since outlining new preservation plans

Norways $2 trillion wealth fund is reviewing its ethical framework after decisions on U.S

Anthropic has been given until Friday to allow the Pentagon to use its Claude model for "all lawful purposes," or risk losing its $200 million DoD contract

An anonymous reader shares a report: A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94% of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens

A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC's artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers

Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 bugs in production open-source codebases -- but security researchers say the real bottleneck was never discovery

Anthropic PBC, which for years billed itself as a safer alternative to artificial intelligence rivals, has loosened its commitment to maintaining its guardrails, one of the most dramatic policy shifts in the AI industry yet as startups once focused on helping humanity turn their attention to profit and success

Anthropic has rewritten its flagship safety policy, dropping its once-defining 'no release until safe' pledge in favor of a more flexible, transparency-based framework

Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.

Feb 25 (REUTERS) - The White House plans to host leading data center and artificial intelligence companies including Microsoft, Anthropic and Meta Platforms in early March to formalize a deal to shield consumers from rising electricity costs, according to two sources familiar with the plans

Anthropic will take these steps when developing a potentially dangerous model.

A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers

AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse

Two stories about the Claude maker Anthropic broke on Tuesday that, when combined, arguably paint a chilling picture

Here's yet another troubling story about this "golden" era of AI. A hacker has exploited Anthropic's Claude chatbot to carry out attacks against Mexican government agencies, according to a report by Bloomberg

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.

CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.

Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequate

Local Claude Code CLI sessions can now be accessed from apps or browsers through Remote Control, and it's different to Claude Code on the web

Setakat ini Google dan xAIadalah dua syarikat yang telah disambung kontrak selepas membenarkan AI mereka digunakan bagi tujuan ini. Namun begitu lain pula situasinya dengan Anthropic

Cybersecurity and software names have sold off heavily in recent weeks as investors fretted about potential disruption from artificial intelligence

Feb 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given artificial intelligence company Anthropic until Friday to back down on safeguards for its products used by the military, Axios reported on Tuesday

Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.

The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching arent What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches

Companies can connect Claude Cowork to existing tools like Google Drive, Gmail and DocuSign.

Until this week, Anthropic was the only AI company cleared to deploy its models on classified networks

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will reportedly give Anthropic until Friday to drop certain guardrails for military use, as reported by Axios

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. software companies that entered into partnerships with AI startup Anthropic on Tuesday helped lead a rebound in the sector that has been hammered by fears about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled 10 new ways for business customers to plug in its technology to key areas of their work, weeks after other releases sparked an aggressive selloff in traditional software company shares

IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling

The US Department of Defense has reportedly reached a deal to use Elon Musk's Grok in its classified systems, according to Axios . That follows news that the Pentagon is currently in a dispute with another AI company, Anthropic, over limits on its technology for things like mass surveillance

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Shares of International Business Machines recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems

Sekitar seminggu selepas OpenAI mendakwa syarikat kecerdasan buatan (AI) China mencuri teknologi AI buatan Amerika Syarikat menerusi teknik penyulingan (distillation), Anthropic juga mendakwa perkara sama berlaku kepada mereka

Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data

Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2013 IBMs share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Shares of cybersecurity companies including CrowdStrike and Datadog slumped on Monday, as investors weighed the potential impact of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic's new security tool on the industry

Anthropic detailed how Chinese AI companies attempt to reverse engineer LLMs like Claude using sophisticated distillation attacks.

Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations

Cybersecurity stocks are the latest to see sell-off pressure as AI threatens to upend software companies.

Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot

Not the first of its kind ai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues

Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.

U.S. artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies set up more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts with its Claude AI model to help their own systems catch up

Agentic AI is quite happy being left alone to its own devices, checking in with users when it need to clarify any details

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled "The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun," arguing that Anthropic's Claude Code "was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I've been knocking off side projects that had sat in folders for a decade or longer..

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model