Things over at Anthropic are getting wild.

The spat resulted in three things;first,in addition to getting 'fired,'Anthropic was deemed a "supply-chain risk"(making them radioactive to the defense industry) - and federal agencies were given six months to ditch Anthropic products.Second, OpenAI's Sam Altman slid into Hegseth's DMs(through proper channels, we're sure) and landed Anthropic's contract - which they revised to beef up and clarify safety protocols, andthird, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei threw a ripper of a tantrumin aleaked memosent to over 2,000 employees attacking the Trump administrationand OpenAI.

For Silicon Valley investors and allies, it immediately sank in how absolutely fucked they are if this stands. Now in a PR crisis,Amodei is scrambling to salvage his company’s relationship with the Pentagon(read:the goodwill of his investors) - and has begunlast-ditch talks with senior officialsin hopes of striking a new deal,FTreports, adding that he's now personally negotiating with Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, who on Thursday called Amodei as a “liar” with a “God complex after talks with the Pentagon collapsed.

It’s a shame that@DarioAmodeiis a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation’s safety at risk.The@DeptofWarwill ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech…https://t.co/ZfwXG36Wvl

Anthropic drew several red lines against allowing its technology to powerfully autonomous lethal weaponsormass domestic surveillance, arguing that the level of protections the Pentagon wanted would be ineffective, and that the Defense Department's language was suspicious.

"Near the end of the negotiation the department offered to accept our current terms if we deleted a specific phrase about ‘analysis ofbulk acquired data,’" Amodei wrote in a memo to employees. "That was the single line in the contract that exactly matched the scenario we were most worried about. We found that very suspicious."

Pentagon officials, meanwhile, claim that Anthropic was demanding they ask permission in life-or-death nuclear scenarios, which Anthropic denied.

A defense official said the Pentagon’s technology chief whittled the debate down toa life-and-death nuclear scenarioat a meeting last month: If an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at the United States, could the military use Anthropic’s Claude AI system to help shoot it down?

It’s the kind of situation where technological might and speed could be critical to detection and counterstrike, with the time to make a decision measured in minutes and seconds. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s answer rankled the Pentagon, according to the official, who characterized the CEO’s reply as:You could call us and we’d work it out.

An Anthropic spokesperson denied Amodei gave that response, calling the account “patently false,” and saying the company has agreed to allow Claude to be used for missile defense. Butofficials have cited this and another incident involving Claude’s use in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduroas flashpoints in a spiraling standoff between the company and the Pentagon in recent days. The meeting was previously reported by Semafor. -Washington Post

Source: ZeroHedge News