How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs

Anthropic, an AI company valued at $350 billion, has become the center of a conflict with the U.S. Department of Defense over its refusal to allow its Claude chatbot to be used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems (military systems that can make lethal decisions without human approval). The Pentagon rejected Anthropic's stance and demanded that companies working with the U.S. government stop doing business with the AI firm.