A senior official in the Department of Defense accused Anthropic of "lying" about how the U.S. military intends to use the private tech firm's Claude AI system. The Pentagon wants Anthropic to remove some of the limits on how Claude can be used by the military and has threatened to cut it from their systems and designate the company a “supply chain risk” if it does not accede to the demands by a Friday deadline. The U.S. used Claude as part of the daring operation to capture then-Venezuelan