Pentagon drops Anthropic's Claude eight months after blacklisting AI firm

Conflict erupted after Anthropic refused to remove safety guardrails; Claude was used through the Iran war before a full ban; deep integration into the Maven system delayed removal; OpenAI, Google and xAI are filling the void The US Department of Defense has halted all use of Anthropic's Claude AI, ending a relationship that collapsed after the company refused the military's demand to strip the model's safety guardrails. According to the BBC, the Pentagon confirmed Monday (local time) that it had stopped using Claude and other Anthropic AI products.

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