Anthropic at loggerheads with US military over AI use
Published on: Feb. 23, 2026, 10:16 p.m. | Source: The Economic Times
AI giant Anthropic is at risk of losing a lucrative Pentagon contract over its policy that its technology should never be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or in fully autonomous weapons systems. The three companies, along with Elon Musk's xAI, were contracted last year to supply AI models for a wide variety of military uses -- including what the Pentagon called frontier AI projects.
