Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAfter weeks of contract talks, the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic are ‍at a standstill, six people familiar with the matter said, on condition of anonymity. The company's position on how its AI tools can be ​used has intensified disagreements between it and the Trump administration, ‌details of which have not been previously reported. A spokesperson ​for the department, which the Trump ​administration renamed the Department of War, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In a statement, Anthropic said ‍its AI is "extensively ⁠used for national security missions by the U.S. government and we are in productive discussions with the Department of War ⁠about ways to continue that work." (Reporting By Deepa Seetharaman and Jeffrey Dastin ‌in San Francisco and David Jeans in Washington, Editing by ‌Kenneth Li and Franklin Paul)