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Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands
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Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands

France 24 · Feb 26, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech. Defense officials in the Trump administration warned they could designate Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, as a supply chain risk — or invoke a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to give the military more sweeping authority to use its products, even if the company doesn’t approve. FRANCE 24's Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles.

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