Hegseth Says He Was Right to Expel Anthropic From the Pentagon. The Reason He’s Citing Is the Opposite of the One He Used. (opens in new tab)

Pete Hegseth posted on X that expelling Anthropic from the Pentagon three months ago gets more justified with every passing day. The export controls now restricting Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals tell a more complicated story — the ban was over Anthropic having too many safeguards; the new crisis is that one of those safeguards failed.