{"id":190326,"date":"2026-02-24T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-200-million-contract-over-woke-ai-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:35:16","slug":"hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-200-million-contract-over-woke-ai-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-200-million-contract-over-woke-ai-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic\u2019s $200 million contract over \u201cwoke AI\u201d concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-dod-contract\/\">Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic\u2019s $200 million contract over \u201cwoke AI\u201d concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-dod-contract\/\">https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-dod-contract\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 16:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.opb.org\">www.opb.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to terminate Anthropic\u2019s $200 million contract with the military by Friday unless the AI lab agrees to lower its safety standards.<\/li>\n<li>During a meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Hegseth\u2019s stance was that the U.S. must be allowed to use AI in all \u201clawful\u201d purposes, including AI-directed warfare and mass surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic has been resistant to these demands, insisting that domestic mass surveillance and AI-controlled weapons are unethical and prone to abuse.<\/li>\n<li>Hegseth threatened to use the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d if the company does not compromise on Trump administration\u2019s demands.<\/li>\n<li>Critics have labeled Anthropic\u2019s safety policies as \u201cwoke AI,\u201d a term used loosely by Trump officials to describe safety safeguards in powerful AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>Competing AI firms like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI have agreed to allow their tools to be used in any \u201clawful\u201d scenarios.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon awarded $200 million contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI, but Anthropic was the first cleared for classified military use due to its advanced and secure models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic\u2019s $200 million contract over \u201cwoke AI\u201d concerns https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/02\/24\/hegseth-threatens-to-cancel-anthropics-dod-contract\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/opb-opb-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/4WUOCGYXOJK6LPFG552ZB72RBA.jpg?auth=448f5cc7705c3cbdaa581e94ad6f253aebb559f473d976319d96dce8658e0426&width=1200&height=675&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190328,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190326\/revisions\/190328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}