Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

The U.S. Defense Secretary is meeting with Anthropic's CEO to pressure the company into allowing military use of Claude (Anthropic's AI system) for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons (weapons that can fire without human approval). Anthropic has refused these uses, and the Pentagon is threatening to label it a "supply chain risk" (a designation that would ban it from government contracts), which could void their $200 million military contract and force other Pentagon partners to stop using Claude.