The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would pledge not to use Anthropic’s AI for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous killing machines,

OpenAI revises its Pentagon deal after backlash, pledging stronger anti-surveillance safeguards and clearer terms on AI use amid ethics concerns.

Defense chief Pete Hegseth has threatened to force the company to lift guardrails against greater military use of AI.

Altman admitted in an “Ask Me Anything” session on social media platform X on Saturday night that its deal with the Pentagon “was definitely rushed.”

OpenAI replaced Anthropic on a Pentagon deal worth up to $200 million, but in doing so, it may have handed its biggest rival a victory by pushing them to the top of the App Store. Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No.

In a battle with Anthropic, Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to destroy one of the most important and innovative companies in the U.S.

"The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic shows no sign of slowing down. Recently, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Trump’s decision to label th.