Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the AI company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

The company said in a statement that it’s not walking away from negotiation but that new contract language received from the Defense Department “made virtually no progress on preventing Claude’s use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.”
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Back in July, 2025, Leaked Slack message sent by Amodei to company staff stated: “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more.
“If we want to stay on the frontier, we gain a very large benefit from having access to this capital. Without it, it is substantially harder to stay on the frontier.”
Amodei wrote that this would enrich “dictators,” but that “unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” 

Anthropic has taken money from Gulf associates before.