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Anthropic loosens safety guardrails amid Pentagon AI clash
technology9 hours ago

Anthropic loosens safety guardrails amid Pentagon AI clash

Anthropic announced a shift away from its two-year-old Responsible Scaling Policy, scrapping the automatic pause on training more capable models and adopting a flexible Frontier Safety Roadmap that publicly grades safety goals while separating its own safeguards from industry guidelines. The move arrives as Anthropic faces government pressure in a Pentagon dispute over AI red lines, including a deadline from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to roll back safeguards or risk losing a $200 million contract, with safety concerns cited around AI-powered weapons and mass domestic surveillance.

via CNN|
#ai-safety#anthropic#frontier-safety-roadmap
Pentagon pressures Anthropic to unlock Claude for military use or risk contract
technology14 hours ago

Pentagon pressures Anthropic to unlock Claude for military use or risk contract

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to open Claude for unrestricted military use or face losing the government contract, with possible penalties like a supply-chain risk designation or use of the Defense Production Act. Amodei reaffirmed Anthropic’s safety and ethical lines—no fully autonomous military targeting and no domestic surveillance—highlighting the broader tension between national-security needs and AI ethics as the Pentagon expands its AI partnerships.

via PBS|
#ai-safety#anthropic#claude
Pentagon pushes for full Claude access from Anthropic, deadline looms
politics22 hours ago

Pentagon pushes for full Claude access from Anthropic, deadline looms

At a Pentagon meeting, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that Anthropic grant full access to its Claude AI model and set a Friday deadline, with Defense Production Act options on the table; Anthropic says guardrails are possible to restrict use to lawful activities and keep humans in the loop, while Pentagon officials push for more control and discuss designating the company a supply-chain risk.

via CBS News|
#ai-in-military#anthropic#claude
Claude's AI Upgrades Trigger Tech Stock Selloff
business1 day ago

Claude's AI Upgrades Trigger Tech Stock Selloff

Anthropic’s Claude AI updates—including legal tools in Claude Cowork, a new Code security scan, and COBOL modernization—have helped spark a broad selloff in software and cybersecurity stocks early in 2026. The iShares Expanded Tech Software Sector ETF is down about 26% this year, with names like CrowdStrike, Okta, Zscaler and IBM among those hit as investors fear AI-enabled disruption could reshape software and related industries.

via Business Insider|
#ai#anthropic#business
Pentagon presses Anthropic for unfettered Claude access or face penalties
technology1 day ago

Pentagon presses Anthropic for unfettered Claude access or face penalties

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act to force Claude to meet military needs, with penalties for noncompliance; Anthropic says it’s willing to adjust usage policies but won’t enable mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, highlighting a high-stakes clash as Claude remains the Pentagon’s primary model for sensitive work and other AI vendors eye classified deployments.

via Axios|
#ai-safeguards#anthropic#claude
Anthropic’s brinkmanship with the Pentagon over broad military AI use
technology1 day ago

Anthropic’s brinkmanship with the Pentagon over broad military AI use

Anthropic is in a high-stakes clash with the Pentagon over an “any lawful use” clause that could authorize DoD deployment of Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. A threat to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” could end its DoD contract and force military contractors to drop its tech, reshaping defense AI. Negotiations, led by DoD CTO Emil Michael, center on DoD’s push for speed and expansive usage versus Anthropic’s red lines—no autonomous weapons or broad domestic surveillance—while other AI firms renegotiated contracts. If DoD moves against Anthropic, Claude’s unique status on classified networks could leave the Pentagon exposed to single-source risk.

via The Verge|
#ai#anthropic#claude
Anthropic alleges Chinese firms used 16M Claude prompts to clone capabilities
technology1 day ago

Anthropic alleges Chinese firms used 16M Claude prompts to clone capabilities

Anthropic says three Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—launched industrial-scale distillation attacks against Claude, generating over 16 million exchanges via about 24,000 fraudulent accounts and proxy services. Each campaign targeted different Claude capabilities: DeepSeek for reasoning and censorship-safe responses (≈150,000 exchanges), Moonshot AI for agentic reasoning, tool use, coding, and vision (≈3.4 million), and MiniMax for agentic coding and tool use (≈13 million). The prompts were designed to harvest capabilities for training rival models and evade detection, highlighting significant national-security concerns due to unguarded capabilities. Anthropic says it has strengthened defenses and detection, noting such attacks exploit illicit distillation rather than typical user risk; Google had reported similar attacks earlier.

via The Hacker News|
#anthropic#china#claude
Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude
technology1 day ago

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude

Anthropic alleges that three Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—carried out industrial-scale distillation attacks to illicitly copy Claude, generating over 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts and violating terms of service and regional access restrictions; the company frames the campaigns as a national-security concern and is calling for rapid cross‑industry, government, and policy-maker cooperation to counter such abuses.

via Mashable|
#anthropic#claude#deepseek
Pentagon Pushes Anthropic on AI Safety Rules Ahead of Defense Deal
technology1 day ago

Pentagon Pushes Anthropic on AI Safety Rules Ahead of Defense Deal

Under pressure from the Trump administration, the Pentagon summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to Washington to renegotiate a $200 million pilot for using its Claude AI on classified networks, aiming to enforce guardrails similar to those being negotiated with rivals Google Gemini and xAI. Anthropic says it is willing to loosen some limits but insists on safeguards to prevent mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight, noting it was the first company authorized for the military’s classified networks. The talks highlight the government’s effort to push for broader, lawful use of AI in defense while balancing safety concerns.

via The New York Times|
#ai-guardrails#anthropic#artificial-intelligence
AI fears trigger roughly $223B software-stock market-cap loss
markets2 days ago

AI fears trigger roughly $223B software-stock market-cap loss

AI-driven disruption fears spurred a broad software-stock selloff, with the iShares Tech-Software ETF (IGV) sliding about 4.8% and wiping roughly $223 billion in market value from its components in a single session. Big names like IBM, DDOG, and CRWD were hit, while analyst commentary pointed to Citrini Research’s AI productivity scenario and Anthropic’s Claude updates as factors fueling caution. Investors remain cautious and want clearer AI headlines before stepping back into software stocks, amid warnings the move could be overdone.

via MarketWatch|
#analysts#anthropic#artificial-intelligence