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That law is meant to mobilize the private industry for national security and was used by Trump and President Biden during COVID to speed up the production of vaccines and ventilators.

But Lawler says it's rarely been drawn upon in such an adversarial way.

If it happens, Anthropic could sue, but it would be an uphill battle.

Anthropic's apprehension over how the Pentagon wants to use AI stems from the recent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The military used Claude during that operation, though it's not exactly clear how.

U.S.

officials say Anthropic raised concerns about that operation to its partner Palantir.

Lawler reports the administration says it's unworkable for the military to litigate individual use cases with Anthropic before or after Claude is applied.

That's what's led the Pentagon to threaten to sever its contract with the company.

All of this puts Anthropic in a pretty tough position.

They say they're open to continuing good faith talks, and it supports the U.S.

national security mission.

As for the Pentagon, Lawler says they don't want to lose Claude and that it would be painful to pull it out of their systems since there is no ready replacement.

Other companies like Google and OpenAI could take its place, but they are already some way behind Anthropic.

A former ICE official broke ranks in a revealing congressional hearing this week, which shed light on the training program for thousands of new recruits.

On Monday, Ryan Schwenk, a former ICE instructor, testified to Democrats that the agency had dramatically slashed training guidelines for new recruits and lied to Congress about it.

Schwenk began working at ICE as a lawyer in 2021 and started volunteering last fall to train new, inexperienced recruits, some as young as 18, at an academy in Georgia.

Last week, Schwenk resigned from that job because he was troubled by what he encountered.

ICE has been using administrative warrants to make arrests and enter people's homes instead of judicial warrants, which require sign-off from a federal judge.

Schwenk told lawmakers he was asked not to discuss the change publicly.