"A senior Pentagon official told Business Insider that Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday to agree to the Defense Department's terms; otherwise, it will find other levers to compel the AI startup to cooperate with the military. The official said Hegseth is prepared for the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) - a decades-old wartime law that gives the president broad authority over private companies in the interest of national security - on top of designating Anthropic a supply chain risk."
"The exact terms the military is demanding of Anthropic are unclear, but the warnings against a US company over broad access to a frontier model represent novel uses of national emergency authorities against a novel technology, experts told Business Insider."
"We're absolutely in uncharted territory, Dean Ball, an ex-senior policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and fellow for the Foundation for American Innovation, told Business Insider."
Anthropic faces a standoff with the US government over military deployment of its Claude AI model. Following a meeting between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon issued an ultimatum: Anthropic must accept the Defense Department's terms by Friday at 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time or face consequences. The government is prepared to invoke the Defense Production Act and designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk if the company refuses. The specific military demands remain unclear, but experts note this represents unprecedented use of national emergency authorities against an AI company. Anthropic previously received a $200 million contract from the Department of Defense to develop frontier AI capabilities.
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