Nancy Marshall-Genzer

But a senior Pentagon official tells Marketplace the Defense Department sent Anthropic its last and final offer Wednesday night.

I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzer for Marketplace.

Paramount Skydance is offering $31 a share for Warner Bros.

Discovery.

It's an all-cash offer, with much of the cash coming from Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison.

Netflix declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros., saying, quote, "...the deal is no longer financially attractive."

Paramount's takeover of Warner Brothers still has to be approved by federal regulators.

The Ellisons are close to President Trump, who said he would be involved in the outcome.

Paramount would buy all of Warner Brothers, including CNN.

Trump said late last year that, quote, it's imperative that CNN be sold.

I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzer for Marketplace.

Well, David, Anthropic unveiled a new policy on safeguards earlier this week, and it's moved from self-imposed guardrails to non-binding goals for AI safety.

In a blog post on Tuesday, the company said under its old policy, if Claude became capable of, say, helping build a weapon, Anthropic would adopt new, stricter safeguards, and it hoped other companies would do the same and governments would coordinate with it on this, and that just did not happen.

Well, there are reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given Anthropic an ultimatum, and Hegseth wants the company to roll back its rules even more by tomorrow, or it could lose a Defense Department contract worth $200 million.

The Pentagon doesn't want any constraints on AI use in weapons.

For example,

If it has just minutes to fire weapons and needs AI to do it, it doesn't want to have to ask Anthropic for permission first.

But Anthropic wants to be sure Claude isn't used for things like government surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Axios is reporting the Defense Department could designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

As a first step in that process, Axios says the Pentagon is asking major contractors if they use Claude.