Iran's IRGC designated facilities of Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir across Israel and the Gulf as legitimate targets - with AWS data centers already struck by drones.
The Pentagon sent Anthropic its final terms for unrestricted military AI use Wednesday night, with a 5:01 PM Friday deadline that could end in contract cancellation, supply chain blacklisting, or Defense Production Act invocation.
Defense Secretary Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an ultimatum: lift Claude's military restrictions or face blacklisting from the entire US defense supply chain.
Anthropic refuses to let the Pentagon use Claude AI without ethical guardrails, triggering threats of contract termination and a 'supply chain risk' designation usually reserved for foreign adversaries.
