Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is allegedly “close” to cutting off the Pentagon’s ties to AI firm Anthropic and placing it on a blacklist that would force several other firms to stop using the Claude chatbot, according to a report Monday. Tensions have reached a boiling point after months of heated negotiations, as Anthropic has sought to ensure its tools are not used for mass surveillance on Americans or to develop weapons that can fire with no human involvement, according to Axios . Hegseth