Hegseth warns Anthropic to let military use its AIAP, WASHINGTONUS Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s CEO until tomorrow to open the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, a person familiar with their meeting said on Tuesday. Anthropic makes the chatbot Claude and is the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new US military internal network. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stands outside the Pentagon in Washington on Jan. 15. It also comes as Hegseth has vowed to root out what he calls a “woke culture” in the armed forces. The Pentagon objects to Anthropic’s ethical restrictions, saying military operations need tools that do not come with built-in limitations, the senior Pentagon official said.

Source: Taipei Times February 25, 2026 17:47 UTC