Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company's refusal to loosen its safety standards.

The threat came on Tuesday during a meeting between Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly.

While both sides agreed Hegseth vowed to punish Anthropic for not bending to the administration's demands, accounts of what exactly the threat was vary. One person close to the discussion said Hegseth dangled the possibility of canceling Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Defense Department, while a Pentagon official said repercussions could include forcing Anthropic to allow the federal government to use its AI tools against its will and blacklisting the company from receiving future work with the U.S. military.

It's like a child trying to force someone to give him their toy.

Might be time to revive "drunk or a child?"

Has it only been a one year. Feels like a decade.

This is all just groundwork so that Trump can redirect that contract to Musk

Cool! And with them, will go much of your current economy. Enjoy!

xAI already signed their contract with all these restrictions removed.

I should try Claude.

It really does

You shouldn't have bent the knee if you didn't want to suck and swallow.

What restrictions did they remove for trump? It already generates CSAM...