Anthropic has drawn a hard boundary with the Pentagon. CEO Dario Amodei said on Tuesday that the company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Defense Department's request that it agree to the military's terms for the use of its model, Claude . Amodei's blog post came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the company an ultimatum : Cave and cooperate with the military on Claude, or be blacklisted. Here's what smart people are saying about Anthropic's public spat with the Pentagon.