25 Feb. 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ —  The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a strict ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, demanding that it remove its self-imposed ethical guardrails for military use by 5:01 PM on Friday, February 27, 2026. During a tense meeting at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that the military requires unrestricted access to the company’s flagship AI model, Claude, for “all lawful purposes”. Continue reading →