Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.

This incident, occurring just weeks after the CBP shut down El Paso airspace to shoot down some party balloons, continues to highlight the brash, reckless, and overly gung-ho mentality that has come to define the Pentagon in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tenure.

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.

The War Department is treating small, one-way attack drones less like boutique weapons and more like ammunition, and it is doing so at a scale that resembles a draft for machines. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has effectively run a mock mobilization for ...

Debate continues over AI's role in national security and concerns about how the technology could be used in high-stakes situations.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s CEO a Friday deadline to open the company’s artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting.

The Department of War unveiled a list of 25 small technology and drone companies that have been hand–picked to compete for a chance to transform the future of American warfare. The mission? To quickly field thousands of low–cost, one–way attack ...

Read: What Pete Hegseth doesn’t understand about soldiers Relative to its competitors, Anthropic espouses the most public concern with the safety risks of artificial intelligence. Claude has an 84-page constitution,

"If any tech company caves to the Pentagon's demands, War Secretary Pete Hegseth will have won the ability to surveil our communities... en masse." The post AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration appeared first on Futurism.

Tech lawyers and AI policymakers warn that the Pentagon’s plans to compel Anthropic to abandon its ethical red lines are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley.