Pete Hegseth put on notice his efforts to bend AI firm to his commands will backfire

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has tried to strongarm Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence firm, to suspend its own rules about restricting military use of its technology — but it's bound to blow up in his face, wrote The Washington Post editorial board.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the company a deadline of 5:01 p.m. on Friday to either allow the military to freely use its Claude model or lose a $200 million government contract and be blacklisted as 'a supply chain risk,'...