Over the last week, tensions between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence giant Anthropic have reached a boiling point. Anthropic, the creator of the Claude chatbot system and a frontier AI company with a defense contract worth up to $200 million, has built its brand around the promotion of AI safety , touting red lines the company says it won’t cross. Now, the Pentagon appears to be pushing those boundaries. Hints of a possible rift between Anthropic and the Defense Department, now