The fierce standoff over Claude isn’t just a contract fight. It’s about who controls the future of military AI. In Washington and Silicon Valley, a conflict once relegated to specialist policy briefings has burst into view as arms-length diplomacy between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI lab, approaches a critical deadline. At stake is the future of AI governance and what limits, if any, private developers can place on how governments use powerful models. For years, Anthropic has distinguished itself from peers by embracing a safety-first stance. Its flagship model, Claude, was designed with guardrails…

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