{"id":41741,"date":"2026-03-05T01:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41741"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:52:49","slug":"anthropic-chief-back-in-talks-with-pentagon-about-ai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41741","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=97bda2ef-fc06-40b3-a867-f61a711b148b&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military\u2019s supply chain. <\/p>\n<p>Amodei has been holding discussions with Emil Michael, under-secretary of defence for research and engineering, in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon\u2019s access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/15c0cb45-8892-46cd-a086-1d2716ae7246\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">Anthropic<\/a>\u2019s AI models, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Agreeing a new contract would enable the US military to continue using Anthropic\u2019s technology and greatly reduce the risk of the company being designated as a supply chain risk \u2014 a move threatened by defence secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday but not yet enacted. <\/p>\n<p>The attempt to reach a compromise agreement follows the spectacular collapse of talks last week. <\/p>\n<p>Michael attacked Amodei as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/11d27612-d6c5-4cf7-94dd-f65603549b7f\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">\u201cliar\u201d with a \u201cGod complex\u201d<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Deliberations broke down a day later after the pair failed to agree language that Anthropic felt was essential to prevent AI being used for mass domestic surveillance, which is one of the company\u2019s red lines, alongside lethal autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNear the end of the negotiation the [department] offered to accept our current terms if we deleted a specific phrase about \u2018analysis of bulk acquired data\u2019 which was the single line in the contract that exactly matched this scenario we were most worried about. We found that very suspicious,\u201d wrote Amodei in a memo to staff on Friday, which was first reported by The Information on Wednesday and seen by the FT. <\/p>\n<p>In the note, which is likely to complicate negotiations, Amodei wrote that much of the messaging from the Pentagon and OpenAI, which struck its own agreement with Hegseth on Friday, was \u201cjust straight up lies about these issues or tries to confuse them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei suggested Anthropic had been frozen out because \u201cwe haven\u2019t given dictator-style praise to Trump\u201d in contrast to OpenAI chief Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic was first awarded a $200mn agreement with the US defence department in July last year and was the first AI model to be used in classified settings and by national security agencies. <\/p>\n<p>The fight between Anthropic and the government escalated after the Pentagon pushed for AI companies to allow their technology to be used for any \u201clawful\u201d purpose. <\/p>\n<p>It culminated in Hegseth declaring last week that he planned to designate the company a supply chain risk, obliging businesses in the military supply chain to cut ties with Anthropic. <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic declined to comment. The Pentagon did not immediately reply to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Joe Miller in Washington <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/97bda2ef-fc06-40b3-a867-f61a711b148b\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}