Just days after President Trump slammed Anthropic for disputes over wartime use of its AI, a major Claude outage has stretched on for hours.

This is not how it was supposed to go for Anthropic.

The Pentagon's top technology official told CBS News the military has offered compromises to Anthropic, amid a feud over whether its powerful AI technology will be restricted — but Anthropic called the offer inadequate.

The AI giant’s CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have contrasting personalities and worldviews.

A standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic outlasted the deadline military officials gave the AI firm to grant unrestricted access to its most advanced model or face consequences.

The company objected to hypothetical future use cases, not anything the military is currently doing. The updated feature makes importing preferences and context from other LLMs easier as Claude climbs the app charts. At the outbreak of a new war, Altman is closer than ever to the Pentagon.

Trump's directive comes amid a dispute between the AI giant and the Department of Defense.

In an unprecedented one-two punch against a big American firm, Mr Trump said he would immediately ban all American federal agencies from using Anthropic’s technology. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war,