Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply chain.
Amodei has been holding discussions with Emil Michael, under-secretary of defence for research and engineering, in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon’s access to Anthropic’s AI models, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter.
Agreeing a new contract would enable the US military to continue using Anthropic’s technology and greatly reduce the risk of the company being designated as a supply chain risk — a move threatened by defence secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday but not yet enacted.