MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO / AFP via Getty Images The defense secretary’s desperate ploy to make a top Pentagon contractor cave to his demands is raising red flags for experts. “It doesn’t make any sense,” Dean Ball, a former AI adviser in the Trump administration who helped craft the president’s AI plans, told Politico about threats that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday regarding contracts the AI company has with the agency. During the Tuesday meeting between Hegseth and Amodei, Hegseth gave the CEO of the AI safety and research company an ultimatum : give the military unfettered access to its AI model, or be considered a “supply chain risk” and have ties with the Pentagon cut. Read more at The Daily Beast.