Secretary of Defense Hegseth is threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to give the military unfettered access to Claude, their AI model. Unlike Google, OpenAI and xAI, Anthropic has so far refused to allow their model to be used for fully autonomous military targeting operations and domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens.
Because nothing says “security” like trusting your military communications to notoriously-hard-to-audit AI models developed under duress.