Why the department of war banned Claude
Anthropic turned down hundreds of millions of dollars and said no to the Pentagon. Less than 24 hours later, OpenAI signed the deal. Both companies claim identical principles, but one drew a line in the contract and one didn't. That difference might be everything.
In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down the full story behind the Anthropic-Pentagon fallout: the internal memos, the red lines, the legal fine print, and why the mechanism matters more than the mission statement. Because the question isn't just "can AI be used for war?" anymore. It's "who gets to decide, and what happens…
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