Pentagon Switched Vendors, Not Policy // AIDRAN

Pete Hegseth's deadline was not designed to change Anthropic's mind — it was designed to test whether Anthropic's position had a price. , demanding Anthropic remove AI safeguards for unrestricted military use . Anthropic's CEO said no . What followed was not a negotiation — it was a procurement redirect. The DoD had already identified what it needed; it simply needed to know which labs would provide it without conditions attached. That answer arrived faster than most observers expected.

Anthropic Held the Line. OpenAI Did Not. The Pentagon Got What It Wanted.

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