Pentagon CTO rules out resolution with Anthropic, calls Mythos a broader ‘cyber moment’

One of the Pentagon’s top technology leaders ruled out any reconciliation with Anthropic, despite the White House softening its own tone on the AI company.

“Never again will we be single-threaded with any one model,” Emil Michael, under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said Thursday in a fireside chat at the AI Expo in Washington.

“We were singled-threaded with Anthropic,” he added.

The comment came after David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, asked Michael whether the Department of Defense’s (DOD) conflict with Anthropic could eventually be resolved and if the AI firm would be able to sign a deal for its models to be deployed in classified networks.

Eight companies, including Microsoft, Google and xAI, signed similar deals last week.

When Sanger brought up whether Anthropic could be part of these deals one day, Michael said, “not at the Department of War.”

Just more than two months have passed since the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic from its military work after a dispute with the company over the potential use of its AI models for domestic........

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