Anthropic stated that it rejects the Pentagon's "final proposal".

PANews reported on February 27th that, according to Axios, Anthropic stated on Thursday that negotiations with the Pentagon regarding the terms of use of the Claude model have made "virtually little progress," and the company cannot accept the Department of Defense's "final offer." The core disagreement lies in whether Claude can be used for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and as a fully autonomous weapon. The U.S. Department of Defense has threatened to blacklist Anthropic from its supply chain or invoke the Defense Production Act to force it to provide the model unconditionally. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that even if it faces being removed from the Department of Defense's program, the company will not agree to the requirement of "all legitimate uses" and will cooperate with the Pentagon to smoothly migrate to other model suppliers.