Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei