Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel
Amid intense pressure from the Trump administration, Pentagon officials have summoned the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to Washington for a meeting on Tuesday to discuss how its technology is used on classified systems.
The Defense Department and Anthropic agreed to a $200 million pilot contract last year. But a Jan. 9 memo by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling on A.I. companies to remove restrictions on their technology led the two sides to renegotiate their contract.
The Pentagon has signed an agreement with one company, Elon Musk’s xAI, and is getting close to making a deal with Google, which makes the Gemini model, according to people briefed on the discussions. Defense Department officials hope to use those agreements to pressure Anthropic to allow its model to be used more broadly, they said.
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