Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows, but officials are also worried about consequence of losing access to Claude.
"The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting.
Hegseth mentioned Pentagon's claim that Anthropic raised concerns to its partner Palantir over use of Claude during the Maduro raid.
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