Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon

The Defense Department is threatening to blacklist Anthropic over limits on military use, potentially putting one of its top contractors in a bind.

A dispute between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company’s technology has now gone public. Amid tense negotiations, Anthropic has reportedly called for limits on two key applications: mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Department of Defense, which Trump renamed the Department of War last year, wants the freedom to use the technology without those restrictions.