Pentagon says it has completely stopped using Anthropic's SI — even though Claude was used in operations against Iran just last week
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A model the military considered irreplaceable was switched off for refusing to remove its own restrictions — the dispute over who sets the rules for SI was settled against it.
A US Department of Defense spokesperson told the BBC that the department has "ceased using Anthropic products." In February Pete Hegseth called the company a "supply chain risk" after it refused to remove safeguards from its models, and promised to drop it by the end of August. According to several BBC sources, Claude was still being used last week for intelligence, analysis and in operations against Iran. Anthropic declined to comment.
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