Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during a Bloomberg Television interview in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. <\/p>\n
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The Pentagon is considering ending its relationship with artificial intelligenc<\/a>e company\u00a0Anthropic<\/a>\u00a0over its insistence on keeping some restrictions on how the U.S. military uses its models, Axios reported<\/a> on Saturday, citing an administration official.<\/p>\n The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies<\/a> to let the military use their tools for “all lawful purposes,” including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0has not agreed to those terms and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of negotiations, according to the Axios report.<\/p>\n The other companies included OpenAI<\/a>, Google<\/a> and xAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n An\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0spokesperson said the company had not discussed the use of its AI model Claude<\/a> for specific operations with the Pentagon. The spokesperson said conversations with the U.S. government so far had focused on a specific set of usage policy questions, including hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, none of which related to current operations.<\/p>\n The Pentagon did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.<\/p>\n Anthropic’s\u00a0AI model Claude\u00a0was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with Claude deployed via\u00a0Anthropic’s partnership with data firm Palantir<\/a>, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n