Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei publicly drew a line in the sand with the US military, insisting that its AI models may not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or deadly autonomous weapons. The move infuriated officials at the Pentagon. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth came out in full force, accusing Anthropic of trying to “seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military”