SAEDNEWS: The Pentagon is considering ending its relationship with artificial intelligence company Anthropic.
According to SAEDNEWS, The U.S. Department of Defense is considering severing its relationship with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic in a dispute over how the company restricts the U.S. military’s use of its AI models and technology. This potential move stems from disagreements over the company’s insistence on keeping certain limits on how the military can employ its AI systems.
According to reports citing a senior administration official, the Pentagon is pressing four major AI companies — including OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Anthropic — to let the military use their tools for “all lawful purposes,” a broad standard that would cover weapons development, intelligence collection, and battlefield operations.
After months of negotiations, Anthropic has not agreed to these broader terms, officials say, and tensions have risen as a result. The other companies involved in these discussions are OpenAI, Google and xAI.
An Anthropic spokesperson clarified that talks with the U.S. government have focused on specific usage policy questions, such as establishing firm limits around fully autonomous weapons systems and mass domestic surveillance. The company has maintained that these limits do not relate to current military operations.
“The company had not discussed the use of its AI model Claude for specific operations with the Pentagon,” the spokesperson said, stressing that discussions were about policy boundaries, not deployment planning.
This statement comes amid reporting that Anthropic’s AI model Claude was used by the U.S. military in an operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — reportedly deployed through Anthropic’s partnership with analytics firm Palantir.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The broader dispute highlights ongoing tension between commercial AI companies’ ethical policies and U.S. national defense objectives, especially in how advanced AI tools are deployed across classified military networks.
