Anthropic, Hegseth’s Ultimatum and Threats to Safety and U.S. Competitiveness Bucking pressure from the U.S. Department of Defense , Anthropic is refusing to revise its   safeguards in its end user license agreement (EULA) and usage policies for its Claude AI model.  Hegseth had issued a Friday, March 27 2026 deadline for Anthropic to enable their instance of the technology to conduct mass surveillance and autonomous kill missions. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused , leadi