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The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a national security risk. So Anthropic is suing the Pentagon

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The soap opera between Anthropic and the Pentagon has a new chapter (and now they are going…). After the push and pull of the last few weeks, Anthropic stood and that ended up causing The US put the company on the blacklist. Anthropic was not amused. what has happened. Anthropic has sued the US Department of Defense (or War), calling the decision to blacklist them “unprecedented and illegal” and arguing that it will cause irreparable harm to the company. . In statements to Fortunean Anthropic spokesperson has assured that they remain committed to protecting national security and want to find a solution, but that “it is a necessary step to protect our business, our customers and our partners.” The administration has not commented on this lawsuit. A lot of money at stake. By blacklisting Anthropic, the government prevents defense contractors and suppliers from using Claude in their Pentagon-related activities. Additionally, Trump ordered the entire government to stop using Anthropic’s AI. The company says government contracts are already being canceled and other private contracts are in jeopardy. Anthropic’s commercial director, Paul Smith, has assured that there is a client who already Claude has been swapped for another generative AI. This contract alone will make them lose at least 100 million dollars. Doubts about legality. Anthropic says the government’s move is not legal. Are they right? According to legal experts at Lawfarethe “supply chain risk” label will not withstand judicial scrutiny. The main reason is that this designation is intended for foreign adversaries, as happened with Huawei. The law’s definition is “the risk that an adversary could sabotage or subvert a covered system,” it says nothing about using it as punishment to a national company for a disagreement. According to Lawfare, the statements by Trump and the defense secretary “frame the action as ideological punishment of a political enemy.” The disagreement. The origin of this escalation is in the red lines that Anthropic put Basically, the company refused to allow its model to be used for mass surveillance of citizens and especially the development of lethal weapons without human supervision. The concern is justified: a soldier can refuse to carry out an illegal order, an AI cannot. The Pentagon does not like red lines (from others, of course) and demanded to be able to use their technology without limits. In Trump’s words in a Truth Social post: “We will decide the fate of our country, NOT an out-of-control radical left-wing AI company run by people who have no idea what the real world is like.” Meanwhile OpenAI… Shortly after Anthropic was blacklisted, the government found a new candidate to carry out your plans: OpenAI. According to the company by Sam Altman, its development has more safeguards and hey, calm down, it’s not that big of a deal. What has followed is an image crisis for ChatGPT, with resignations and mass uninstalls of users who have switched to Claude. But let’s not fool ourselves, although Anthropic has won the battle of public opinion, if the US keeps up, the future looks pretty bleak for Amodei’s side. In Xataka | Anthropic has become the Apple of our era and OpenAI our Microsoft: a story of love and hate Image | Anthropic (edited)

OpenAI says its agreement with the Pentagon is completely secure. His way of convincing us: “Trust us”

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Don’t worry about anything, really. Trust us. Who says it is OpenAI, a company led by Sam Altman that has earned the reputation of saying one thing on one hand and doing another on the other. There are whole books written on that premise, and it is inevitable not to remember it now that this gigantic startup has signed a disturbing agreement. soap opera. OpenAI reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to integrate its AI models into government agencies, replacing Anthropic. They did so by indicating that they would impose requirements on the use of these models and would have red lines similar to those defended in Anthropic: no mass espionage, no development of autonomous weapons. That decision has cost Anthropic the contract with the DoDbut also has been tagged as a “risk to the supply chain.” Trust us. There are two problems here. The first, that OpenAI has never shown the contract that makes it clear that there are red lines to the use of GPT by the military. And the second and most serious, that according to OpenAI we do not need it because we only need to trust them. Altman himself tried to dispel doubts explaining that they had added amendments to the agreement to ensure that those red lines were not crossed. The wall of opacity. Despite promises of transparency, OpenAI refuses to publish the contract. The firm’s head of national security, Katrina Muligan, he came to affirm in that it does not feel “obliged” to share the legal language of the agreement. This has raised suspicions about what has really been signed behind the scenes. Holes everywhere. Brad Carson, who served as secretary of the US Army under Obama, indicated at The Intercept how Sam Altman’s legal language in his posts on X is suspect. The CEO of OpenAI mention for example that “the AI ​​system will not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US citizens.” That “intentionally” is, according to experts like Carson, a kind of blank check to allow data on American citizens to be captured while spying on foreigners “by accident” but systematically. As Carson explains, They are trying to confuse you with complicated legal terms that ordinary people think mean something completely different. But lawyers know what it means. And lawyers know that this is no protection. The human factor. The integration of OpenAI’s AI into DoD systems now falls under the direct supervision of Secretary of Defense Pet Hegseth and President Trump. This represents an ethical dilemma: the security of the system depends on the political will of figures who have traditionally had no problem eliminating restrictions on mass surveillance systems. Quo vadis, OpenAI. The 180º turn it’s clear for OpenAI. While in its beginnings the startup was defined With the message of creating AI systems “for the benefit of humanity” and prohibiting the military use of its technology, this agreement demonstrates that such premises no longer seem to exist. another bad sign. This way of acting by OpenAI has caused it to be openly criticized on networks, but there have also been internal problems. This is demonstrated by the fact that its director of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, has decided to resign from office over concerns about the company’s military negotiations. And an obvious question. The dispute between the Department of Defense and the Pentagon centered precisely on the fact that they did not want Anthropic to establish red lines. OpenAI claims to have established basically the same ones, so how is it possible that the DoD allows OpenAI to establish them when it has not allowed Anthropic to do so? It doesn’t seem to make any sense. What a mess. We are living a real soap opera with three protagonists. The US Department of Defense (DoD) – now renamed the Department of War –, the company Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI. The DoD, which used Anthropic’s AI for military operations, He demanded to be able to use it without restrictionsbut Dario Amodei, CEO of the startup, he flatly refused. That was the moment Sam Altman took advantage of to become the new ally of the DoDsomething that has been seen by many as opportunistic and morally reprehensible. Image | Xataka with Freepik In Xataka | The war between Anthropic and the Pentagon points to something terrifying: a new “Oppenheimer Moment”

While Anthropic goes on the US blacklist, the Pentagon already has someone to succeed him: OpenAI

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The pentagon gave an ultimatum to Anthropic to accept the unlimited use of its AI models for applications of all kinds, including espionage and military use. The deadline arrived, at 5:01 p.m. this Friday, February 27, and Anthropic said no: he would be faithful to his principles. The sword of Damocles has fallen on the company led by Dario Amodei and the United States has completed its threats. How did he communicate? A few hours ago, United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, for the Pentagon, Anthropic is already a “risk to the supply chain.” The context. This chronicle of a death foretold has been meeting its deadlines and everyone has remained in their initial position: Anthropic rejected the Pentagon’s lawsuit over concerns about the use of AI for mass civilian surveillance and the development of weapons capable of firing without human intervention. The company behind Claude has already announced that he will contest. We will have to see the cost of maintaining his position. The United States will apply a sanction that until now we had only seen applied to companies from rival countries, Huawei is one of the clearest examples. What’s going to happen now. Leaving aside the fact that the president of the United States refers to Anthropic as “a radical left-wing and woke company” on your social network Truth Socialthe US Ministry of Defense has carried out its threat, which has come into effect immediately: It will terminate its contract with Anthropic, valued at up to $200 million, and as announced Peter Hegseth, no contractor, supplier or partner doing business with the United States Armed Forces may do business with Anthropic. There will be a six-month period for the Pentagon and other government agencies to transition Claude to alternatives. OpenAI said yes. The United States already has a company to provide its services to the Pentagon and other agencies: OpenAI. Sam Altman announced the agreement to deploy its models on its classified network explaining that the Department of Defense had shown a “deep respect for security” and that both AI security and broad benefit sharing are the foundation of its mission. Among the security principles specifically mentioned by Altman are the prohibition of domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including autonomous weapons systems. According to the CEO of OpenAI, the War Department is aligned with these principles. Likewise, he explained that they will apply technical safeguards to guarantee the correct behavior of their models. Claude’s shadow is long. Saying goodbye overnight to your reference AI company (even with that transition period) and putting a veto on other companies working with it is a tricky measure to put into practice as it is behind recent strategic operations, such as Maduro’s arrest and others imminent. Likewise, it leaves projects such as that of Palantirwhich Claude uses. behind the scenes. According to AxiosDeputy Secretary of Defense Emil Michael was in talks with Anthropic to offer a deal just as Pete Hegseth dropped the bomb on X/Twitter. This theoretical agreement would have allowed the collection or analysis of data on US citizens, such as location, web browsing or financial information. At the moment it is unknown if this interest of the Pentagon in collecting personal data legally applies to OpenAI. In Xataka | IBM has been living for decades that no one could kill COBOL. Anthropic has other plans In Xataka | Anthropic and OpenAI have developed AI. The US Pentagon is showing you who really owns it Cover | Tomasz Zielonka

The war between Anthropic and the Pentagon points to something terrifying: a new “Oppenheimer Moment”

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Anthropic has refused to bow to pressure from the Pentagon. Its co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, has just published a statement in which they make it clear that they are not willing to break their ethical principles. No massive espionage with AI, no development of lethal autonomous weapons with its models. And that reminds us of a terrible case: the one with the atomic bomb. From hero to villain. J. Robert Oppenheimer went from being the “father of the atomic bomb” and a national hero to become in an outcast. His sin was not betrayal, but his moral clarity. After witness the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer desperately tried to stop the atomic escalation and the development of the hydrogen bomb. Either you are with us, or against us. The United States, which had praised him in the past, took advantage of his former political affiliations and stripped him of all his privileges and influence. This demonstrated how the US government simply decided that scientific knowledge was state property and that any researcher who tried to propose ethical limits to their own projects would be treated as an enemy of the country. History is threatening to repeat itself these days. From Oppenheimer to Anthropic. He is doing it with a protagonist that is still there—the US Government—and another that is changing: the one who now defends the ethics of a scientific-technological project is not Oppenheimer, but Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Claude is increasingly vital in the US Government. Your company is between a rock and a hard place these days. Anthropic managed to make its model Claude become the pretty girl of the US Government. The ability of this AI has proven to be so remarkable that it was apparently used to plan the arrest of the former president of VenezuelaNicolás Maduro. red lines. But so that the Pentagon could use Claude, Anthropic imposed certain red lines. No use for mass surveillance of US citizens, and no use for the development of lethal autonomous weapons. And the Pentagon has ended up not liking those red lines, so they want to eliminate them and use Claude as they please as long as, they say, the Constitution and American laws are respected. The Pentagon wants AI without restrictions. That has ended up causing an enormously tense situation these days. The Pentagon threatened to punish Anthropic if it did not give in to its demands, and those threats from the Department of Defense have not been subtle at all. In fact, they have suggested that they could label Anthropic as a company that is “a supply chain risk,” a black label typically reserved for companies in rival countries like China or Russia. Contradiction. Dario Amodei himself explained in an entry on the company’s official blog that those two threats were self-exclusive: “These last two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us as a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.” Can AI be nationalized? It’s a disturbing irony: the same government that considers Claude an essential tool for national security is willing to label his creators a public threat if they don’t hand over the keys to the kingdom and their AI. What the Department of Defense and the Pentagon want is to basically “nationalize” the AI ​​technology developed by Anthropic and appropriate it as they already did with the technology that gave rise to the atomic bomb. We know how that ended. Anthropic refuses to give in. The danger is enormous in both sections: mass surveillance, rather than defending democracy, can dynamite it from within, and the NSA scandal is a good example. But even more worrying is the Pentagon’s intention to use this AI to develop lethal autonomous weapons. Amodei insisted on this point, indicating that “The foundational models of AI They’re just not reliable enough. to power fully autonomous weapons. “We will not knowingly provide a product that puts American warfighters and civilians at risk.” Amodei even offers the Department of War/Defense help in the “transition to another provider” of AI models, but at the moment it is not clear which path the US government will take. Oppenheimer Moment. If the Pentagon finally execute his threat and ban Anthropic, the message for the industry will be chilling. In the age of AI there are no conscientious objectors: if a company develops a technological and strategic advantage at a military level, that company is at the mercy of the State. It is a new and terrifying “Oppenheimer Moment” that conditions the future not only of Anthropic, but of the development of AI models itself. In Xataka | “The world is in danger”: Anthropic’s security manager leaves the company to write poetry

Anthropic has red lines for its AI. The Pentagon just demanded that you delete them all

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The pentagon just gave to Anthropic until this Friday at 5:01 p.m. to accept its unrestricted use of its AI models for all types of applications, including espionage and military applications. The company has so far refused, but the Trump administration is threatening to invoke a 75-year-old rule to “appropriate” Anthropic’s AI technology. red lines. The conflict has its origin in the red lines imposed by Anthropic’s ethical standards. The company, led by Dario Amodei, refuses to have its models used for mass surveillance of American citizens – it says nothing about others – or in the development and use of lethal autonomous weapons controlled entirely by AI. The Pentagon wants to use AI (almost) without limits. These types of safeguards clash head-on with the Pentagon’s position, which demands that its technology providers open the use of their software and hardware solutions for any legal purpose defined by the military, without external vetoes. As long as the US constitution and laws allow it, a private company should not be able to impose limits on the use of its technology, the US Government indicates. Tension after the Maduro incident. Things began to go wrong when it was learned that the Claude model was used in a US special forces operation in January to capture the former Venezuelan presidentNicolás Maduro. The incident put the army’s dependence on Claude under the microscope: Anthropic is currently the only AI company that operates in the Pentagon’s classified systems, which gives it a notable position of power that now wants to be broken by the US government. This smells bad. The Pentagon’s strategy is disturbing from a legal point of view. There are three main possibilities for action: Cancel the Anthropic contract and start working with another (or other) AI companies willing to accept their terms. Yesterday we knew that xAI has already signed an agreement so that the DoD can use its Grok model, in classified systems. Google seems to be also an option they are working with. Identify Anthropic as a risk to your supply chain. That is very dangerous, because it would mean that a huge number of companies in the US would not be able to work with Anthropic. It would be a kind of veto like the one the US imposed on Huawei, but applied to a national company. The impact for Anthropic and its investors (Amazon and Google among them) would be catastrophic. Activate Title 1 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, a special law theoretically designed to control the economy during wars and emergencies. It was used, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic to boost the production of medical supplies and accelerate the production of vaccines. It seems unlikely that they can do something like that. How did this whole mess start?. The Biden administration promoted measures and ethical limits to restrict the application of AI, but everything changed with the mandate of Donald Trump. In June 2025 Anthropic released Claude Gova specialized series of AI models specifically designed for use by US national agencies in security, defense and intelligence. AI with military and intelligence applications. These models were prepared to operate in environments with classified information. Anthropic also offered them for a symbolic price of 1 dollar to ensure that the Government would prefer them over those of other competitors. Shortly thereafter, the DoD granted the company a contract worth $200 million, and the company has since gone integrating with the Palantir systems used in US government agencies. Two opposing positions. Anthropic therefore positions itself as a defender of certain limits for the use of its AI models. The Department of Defense (DoD) disagrees, arguing that military use of any technology should only adhere to the US Constitution or laws. The company maintains that seeks to support the national security missionbut only within what their models can do reliably and responsibly. The dilemma. If the Pentagon carries out its threat, a precedent will be set where the State can intervene in the intellectual property of a software company under the argument of national emergency. This would force all Big Tech to decide if they are willing to cede full control of their technological developments to the military… or risk being intervened by an almost 80-year-old law. Image | Ben White | Anthropic In Xataka | IBM has been living for decades that no one could kill COBOL. Anthropic has other plans

The Pentagon gets fully into the Rare Earth War with China. Has invested 400 million in the most promising US mine

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The US Department of Defense is about to establish itself as the largest shareholder of MP Materials. A few hours ago has announced who will buy shares of this mining company for A value of 400 million dollars. And, in addition, it will provide additional 150 million to help this company Extract and process rare earths which contains its Mountain Pass site, which is in California, although it resides very close to the border with the Nevada state. This mine is the only US site that contains some of the rare earths that are necessary to manufacture high -power industrial magnets, so it has become a very valuable strategic resource for the country led by Donald Trump. The US plan pursues Develop your own supply chain of rare earths with the purpose of eliminating any dependence on the global market of these chemical elements, which is controlled by China. The entry of the Department of Defense in the MP Materials shareholders reflects with absolute how important this mine for the US is from the point of view of national security. What is not yet clear is if it contains the rare earth range and in the right amount to meet the needs of US companies. In any case, with its investment the Pentagon intends to ensure the supply of rare earths to manufacture High power magnets for military applications For at least ten years. Why are rare earths so important to the US and its allies On April 4, just 24 hours after Donald Trump announced the taxes that he was going to apply to the importation of most products from abroad, The administration led by Xi Jinping responded. And he did it forcefully. In early December 2024 He chose to prohibit The export of some critical minerals to the US, among which were three essential metals for the chips industry: Gallium, Germanio and Antimony. Shortly after the Chinese government added two more critical metals to its list of export restrictions: the Scandio and the Disposio. These chemical elements are probably less known than metals prohibited by China previously, such as Gallium or Germanio, but are at least as important as the latter because They have a fundamental role In the industries of integrated circuits, telecommunications and the manufacture of storage devices. Chinese authorities are retaining in ports throughout the country not only rare earths, but also high -power magnets The ability to put pressure from China had not yet been extinguished. Just ten days later, on April 14, the Administration did not hesitate take another step forward With the purpose of putting in check, in addition to the industries that I just mentioned, those of electric cars, aeronautics and advanced armament. To achieve this, it effectively suspended, in addition to the export of the most valuable rare earths, that of high -power magnets that have a critical role in the industries that I have cited in this same paragraph. The Chinese authorities are retaining in the ports throughout the country not only the rare earths, but also the high -power magnets acquired by the electric cars manufacturers of the entire planet, the aerospace companies, the chip factories and Armament companies. Many of these organizations have high -power magnet reserves made with rare earths, but possibly only allow them to subsist a few months. Europe in particular is in an extremely delicate position. China’s export controls are directed mainly to the US, but the old continent It does not remain unscathed. At least for the moment. In fact, in Germany, which as we all know is the heart of the European car industry, There are already experts who assure that if China continues to retain rare earths and electric motors some essential parts of the electric cars production chain will stop in a few weeks. For the European car industry this blow would be very difficult to fit. European companies that are dedicated to the manufacture of semiconductors are also in a very compromised situation. According to Reuters Many European chip production lines They will stop very soon Due to the shortage of crucial supplies, which has led the European Chamber of Commerce to meet with officials of the Ministry of Commerce of China to ask them to allow rare earth supply to European companies that are dedicated to the production of integrated circuits. Image | The Pentagon More information | The Washington Post In Xataka | The US will not be able to contain the technological development of China. Experts from the chips industry forecast it

The FBI, the Pentagon and the NASA have ordered to keep the secret

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Elon Musk announced from Your profile in X that Doge would send an email to all federal officials to whom they had to respond without a period of less than 48 hours. Otherwise, they could occur like automatically fired. Those responsible for these agencies have already been adopted a decision in this regard: to ignore that email. Musk mail and its strategy. According to published Fortunein the issue of mail, aimed at the more than 2.3 million federal employees, you could read: “What did you do last week?” Inside, Doge urged officials to indicate what they had been working on during the last week. If they did not receive an answer, Doge would assume that this official was no longer active, which would imply his automatic resignation. It is not the first time that Elon Musk and Doge uses a intimidating email as a channel to fire employees. In 2022, when the millionaire took control of Twitter also sent emails to employees urging them to resign If they did not agree with the new policies that established upon arrival. On that occasion, the result was the dismissal From the Twitter template, although the play did not always go well. NASA is not in a hurry. At least two government agencies have openly challenged Doge’s indications regarding the dismissal mail. NASA was the first to respond: in an internal statement to which It has had access Bloombergthe managers of the space agency urged their 17,000 employees not to respond to that email until they had a guide on how to respond to ensure that “all the rules are met.” Those responsible for the agency warned of “pausar any response to the email in question, so as not to reveal confidential or prior information to decision making to unknown recipients”, since doing so could incur a leak of reserved information. They also exempted responding to Doge’s requirement to all permission employees or who were on vacation, because it is not among their obligations to review the mail these days. The FBI and the pentagon on the spam tray. The managers in charge of supervising the officials of the Pentagon and the FBI have not been very supportive to immediately respond to Doge’s mail. According to confirmed Associated Press, Kash Patel, the newly appointed director of the FBI said that “the FBI, through the director’s office, is in charge of all our review processes, and will carry out reviews in accordance with the FBI procedures. When when And if more information is required, we will coordinate the answers. For their part, from the State Department, Defense and National Security, they were much more direct ordering all their employees to ignore Doge mail, ensuring that the State Department would respond for its workers. “No employee is obliged to inform about his activities outside the department’s command chain,” wrote Tibor Nagy, interim State Undersecretary to the officials in charge. The reasons are very similar to those argued from NASA: there is a high risk of revelation of secrets in those answers. 8.5 million by mail. According to estimates of Fortunethe “drag fishing” maneuver that Doge has used when sending that email will involve an approximate loss of 166,500 hours of work time of the officials, taking as reference the five minutes that Elon Musk assured that would take it to answer it. All those hours employed in justifying the work of officials represent a disbursement of 8.5 million dollars for state coffers, taking into account that the average salary of public officials in the US is 106,000 dollars a year. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Dvids (Justin Pacheco)

The Pentagon has shared for the first time a photo taken with its secret spacecraft. The most striking is your orbit

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The Pentagon has broken by surprise the hermeticism around to the X-37b space plane of the US space force. For the first time we have seen an image taken from the secret ship, which Fly for years No crew. The photo. Maybe what has done irresistible Publish this image Be the captivating views of the Earth that enjoys the aircraft. The photo was taken near the highest point (the peak) of the elliptical trajectory in which A Falcon Heavy rocket from Spacex He launched the X-37B space plane. And it is an amazingly high and elliptical orbit (185 x 35,188 kilometers, according to the Marco Langbroek researcher) which explains why they needed all the Power of a Heavy Falcon To launch it. The context. X-37B is a small robotic ship operated by the American Air Force and Space Force that was last launched in the late 2023. It is designed to test new exploration and space defense technologies, so its missions are largely secret. The current mission is the seventh and focuses on experimenting with “highly elliptical orbits” and “aerofrenado maneuvers” capable of repositioning the ship with a minimum amount of fuel, something that the United States considers vital in a scenario of growing spatial competition, especially by Chinawhich has its own secret space plane. Why this photo is striking. It is not the first time that we see the earth to tens of thousands of kilometers, but so far, the mission of X-37b had taken in an almost absolute silence. This is the first time we see a snapshot captured by the vehicle itself while still in space. Of course, the image is not recent. It was taken on January 30, 2024, according to JPEG’s metadata, a date that The most skeptics verified Comparing the pattern of clouds on planet Earth with the clouds that meteorological satellites recorded that day. What is X-37b for. In addition to demonstrating aerobraking (taking advantage of atmospheric braking to change orbit), X-37B has performed tests with plant seeds to study the effects of radiation on plant growth and has deployed small useful loads to recover them later, which Open the door to potential satellite surveillance or repair applications. This ability to interact with small satellites It is also suspected of the Chinese unmanned ship, Shenlong. Both China and the United States study the deployment and recovery of satellites in these prolonged missions to be able to take advantage of them in the future. In Xataka | China flew Europe with its secret space plane. An Austrian fan managed to photograph him

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