Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

Anthropic says talks with the U.S. Department of War broke down over two requested AI safeguards: no mass domestic surveillance and no fully autonomous weapons.

After the failed negotiations, Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly moved to label Anthropic a supply chain risk.

Anthropic says any designation would be limited to Department of War contract work, not ordinary customers, and it plans to fight the move in court.

The dispute could become a key precedent for how the U.S. regulates AI vendors and military use of frontier models.