Hands Off the Kill-Switch: Pentagon Ultimatum Puts Anthropic Between a DPA and a Hard Place

In what reads like an uncomfortable merger of national security drama and bureaucratic brinkmanship, a Fox News scoop — traced to correspondent Jennifer Griffin of Fox News — says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s co-founder Dario Amodei an ultimatum at a high-stakes Pentagon meeting: remove company guardrails on autonomous lethal functions and mass domestic surveillance , or face…