AI Labs to Defense Contractors: The Pentagon's $13.4B Pivot
The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff isn't an ethics story. It's a replay of the 1993 Last Supper that consolidated 51 defense primes into 5, at Silicon Valley speed.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict with the AI company.
The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff isn't an ethics story. It's a replay of the 1993 Last Supper that consolidated 51 defense primes into 5, at Silicon Valley speed.
Anthropic walked away from a $200M Pentagon deal over AI safety guardrails. It's a pattern worth remembering — the people who build the technology know when it's ready.