Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, can afford to lose a defense contract. Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. OpenAI and Google, along with Elon Musk’s xAI, also have contracts to supply their AI models to the military. “The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused,” the open letter says.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 27, 2026 20:31 UTC