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642 Military Worries Simmer at OpenAI, Google As Anthropic Hits Stalemate With Pentagon

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 02/27/2026 10:34 EDT

Military Worries Simmer at OpenAI, Google As Anthropic Hits Stalemate With Pentagon

The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over how the Pentagon can use the startup’s AI has turned into a standoff.

The agency has given the company a Friday evening deadline to give it unfettered access to its technology—or else be cut off from working with military contractors. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei continues to refuse to do so. “Threats do not change our position,” he wrote in a blog post published on Thursday. “We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”

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