Pentagon Official Sees Little Chance to Revive Anthropic AI Deal

A top Pentagon official sees little chance of resuming negotiations with Anthropic PBC over military use of its artificial intelligence tools following the company’s legal challenge of an unprecedented government move to declare the firm a supply-chain risk.

Emil Michael, the under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said Monday that Anthropic’s lawsuit was an “expected reaction” and that the company’s attempt to reverse the supply-chain declaration wouldn’t alter the Pentagon’s decision.

“I don’t think there’s a scenario where this gets resolved in that way,” Michael said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Michael spoke hours after Anthropic ...