Anthropic and the Pentagon Restart AI-Use Talks After Data-Use Dispute

After a breakdown that saw the Trump administration push agencies to stop using Anthropic’s tools and threaten to designate the company a supply-chain risk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is re-engaging with the DoD to firm terms for Pentagon access to Claude. The talks focus on safeguards against domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, with Amodei noting the negotiators wanted to drop language on 'analysis of bulk acquired data' to reach a deal. OpenAI’s parallel DoD agreement has added pressure, highlighting AI-safety concerns as Washington weighs how to govern military use of these models. A new deal could allow continued Pentagon use of Anthropic’s technology under revised safeguards.