Anthropic Fights Pentagon Claim It Could Sabotage AI in Wartime

Anthropic has submitted sworn declarations to a California federal court pushing back on the Department of Defense's assertion that the company poses an 'unacceptable risk to national security' by potentially manipulating its AI models mid-conflict. The filings reveal a strange timeline: the Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned just one week before Trump publicly declared the relationship dead. Anthropic argues the government's case rests on technical misunderstandings that were never even raised during months of negotiations.

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