With respect, I’m not sure you fully read the post. I called out the existing contract specifically, though I did not mention the dollar amount.
On February 26, after weeks of negotiation, talks broke down between the Pentagon and Anthropic after Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei refused to accede to DOD demands for unfettered “lawful”1 uses of its AI tools by the military. Anthropic was generally fine with Claude being used by the military generally (as it had been since July 2025), and by other strategic military contractors, such as Palantir, Amazon, Oracle, and Lockheed Martin, for everything from supply chain logistics and cyber operations, to foreign surveillance & intelligence gathering.
I also mentioned the fact that Anthropic was unique in that it ran in the classified environment. I quoted Anthropic’s language explicitly.
Given that, I don’t think we’re actually in disagreement here, unless you’re objecting to my tone or something not related to the substance of my piece, in which case, there’s nothing more I have to say.
With respect, I’m not sure you fully read the post. I called out the existing contract specifically, though I did not mention the dollar amount.
I also mentioned the fact that Anthropic was unique in that it ran in the classified environment. I quoted Anthropic’s language explicitly.
Given that, I don’t think we’re actually in disagreement here, unless you’re objecting to my tone or something not related to the substance of my piece, in which case, there’s nothing more I have to say.