Anthropic and the Pentagon are back at the negotiating table, FT reports

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is negotiating again with the U.S. Department of Defense after talks broke down over military use of the company's Claude AI models. Anthropic wanted guarantees that its tools wouldn't be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons (systems that make decisions without human control), while the Pentagon demanded unrestricted use for any lawful purpose. The disagreement centered on whether the military could perform "analysis of bulk acquired data," which Anthropic opposed as a potential surveillance application.