{"id":506942,"date":"2026-02-27T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506942\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:02:08","slug":"anthropic-resists-bully-pentagon-over-unrestricted-military-use-of-claude-chatbot-amid-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506942\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic resists \u2018bully\u2019 Pentagon over unrestricted military use of Claude chatbot amid contract dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said he \u201ccannot in good conscience accede\u201d to the Pentagon\u2019s demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology, deepening his company\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5o59t\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> public clash with the Trump administration<\/a> which is threatening to pull its contract and take other drastic steps by Friday (Saturday AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement it is not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defence Department \u201cmade virtually no progress on preventing Claude\u2019s use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said he \u201ccannot in good conscience accede\u201d to the Pentagon\u2019s demands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-506942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}