Anthropic’s Talks With Pentagon Have Stopped, Top Official Says

May 21, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

Conversations have stopped with Anthropic, but there are many other companies that are very willing to work with the Pentagon, Under Secretary Emil Michael says on Bloomberg TV.

  • Pentagon’s Michael cites recent deals being signed with Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX and Nvidia
  • Michael also says that he puts Mythos in the same category with other cyber models
    • “So you’ll see us as a US government looking at all these models and working with them,” Michael says
    • “We have to, as a government, treat all these new capabilities in a different way than we’ve ever treated anything like this before, ...



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