Caroline Hyde

We reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei met with Secretary Hegseff, I believe, yesterday, Tuesday.

There is a deadline of Friday from the Pentagon's perspective, but in our reporting, Anthropic has conditions of its own that it is putting to the Pentagon quickly.

Yes, Anthropica has set those conditions as no mass surveillance and no use of its technology and fully autonomous targeting.

And now those conditions, it's unclear at what point they will heal.

The Pentagon says, look, you don't need those conditions.

We will abide by the law.

And we do not want, and this is according to the Pentagon's own new AI acceleration strategy released last month, they don't want companies to attach AI

asterisks or conditions on the use of technology by the Pentagon if they are doing business with the government.

And they have threatened the company with some dire consequences.

One is that it would use the Defense Production Act to simply, in essence, impound the technology and use it over anthropic objections or threats.

failing that, they would actually declare Anthropica supply chain risk.

And that would mean that vendors with the Pentagon would have to certify that they are not using Anthropix technology.

And that would pose a business risk to Dario Amadei and his business.

Bloomberg's Mike Shepard, thank you very much.

Now, coming up on the show, we're going to speak with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, fresh off the company's earnings call.

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Checking on shares of Circle on the day, having their best since June 2025, were up 23% after the company reported fourth quarter results that topped expectations.