‘Unacceptable’: Trump and Pete Hegseth turn an AI standoff into a national security showdown — Then an email surfaces and suddenly the whole premise starts to fall apart
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ATLANTA BLACK STAR — President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to force a private AI company into submission and now newly revealed evidence suggests their pressure campaign may have backfired in a way they didn’t expect.
What was framed publicly as a hard break over national security concerns is now being challenged in court, where Anthropic has laid out a very different version of events — one that shows just how close the two sides were to reaching a deal before everything blew up.
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