Overview
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened blacklist measures and possible Defense Production Act action, setting a Friday deadline for compliance.
- CEO Dario Amodei maintained that Claude should not enable autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
- Anthropic confirmed a shift to a non‑binding safety roadmap, dropping a requirement to halt model training when controls lag.
- A report by Gambit Security alleged an attacker used Claude and other models to exfiltrate roughly 150 GB from Mexican systems, exposing about 195 million records.
- Anthropic said it disrupted the activity and blocked implicated accounts, while some Mexican agencies denied breaches, a dispute playing out as the firm holds access to classified Pentagon networks and a contract near $200 million.