Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:31am on 24 Feb 2026,Tuesday International
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a high-stakes confrontation over military access to the Claude AI system. The Defence Department is pressuring Anthropic to deploy its most advanced models within classified military networks with significantly fewer safety restrictions. Currently Claude is the only frontier AI operating in certain sensitive defence environments. Tensions escalated after reports emerged that Claude was allegedly used during the January 3 Venezuela operation that captured Nicolas Maduro, though Anthropic denied confirming this. The Pentagon has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk," which would force all defence contractors to abandon Claude entirely, effectively severing the partnership. (PC: India Today)
