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Defense officials met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to push for broader use of the company's model on classified systems while Anthropic seeks explicit limits on surveillance and autonomous weapons.

The Pentagon summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to renegotiate terms for using Anthropic's A.I. on classified systems.
A $200 million pilot contract is being revisited after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Jan 9 memo urging companies to remove restrictions on their models.
Anthropic says it will only loosen restrictions if the Pentagon agrees to guardrails banning mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons without humans in the loop.
The Pentagon has signed a deal with Elon Musk's xAI and is close to a deal with Google Gemini, which officials hope will provide leverage in talks with Anthropic.
Anthropic was the first company authorized on classified networks and its Claude model is widely used by military analysts, so removing it would cause short-term disruptions

Pentagon summons Anthropic chief to renegotiate A.I. guardrails

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