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Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for 'Not a Friendly' Meeting

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei. Along with Daniela Amodei, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, and Tom Brown, he established Anthropic in 2021. File image/AFP

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Firstpost•24-02-2026, 07:37

Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for 'Not a Friendly' Meeting

•Pentagon official describes meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as a "sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting."
•Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Amodei to discuss terms of Anthropic's Claude AI for military use.
•Pentagon is angered by Anthropic's refusal to fully remove safeguards for Claude, which is used in classified systems.
•Anthropic is open to easing some usage limits but maintains boundaries against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
•Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," potentially canceling contracts and forcing other companies to drop Claude.

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