Pentagon Renegotiates AI Contracts With Anthropic Amid Risk
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei amid Pentagon contract renegotiations over acceptable-use policies, supply-chain risk designations, and classified-access clearance. The meeting included private-sector figures Emil Michael and Steve Feinberg, and prompted a Pentagon decision to grant xAI’s Grok classified access, with Google’s Gemini reportedly near a similar deal to avoid single-supplier vulnerability from a 2024 memorandum. The dispute affects which frontier models the Department of Defense can use on classified networks.
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