AAron Ontiveroz / Denver Post via Getty Images AI safety and research company Anthropic has told the Pentagon it will not agree to their demands to drop critical safety precautions and grant the U.S. military full access to their AI capabilities. On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense reportedly threatened to cancel their $200 million contract with the San Francisco-based company and deem them a “supply chain risk” if they did not comply with the demands by Friday evening, according to Axios . In a statement released on Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said his company “cannot in good conscience” comply with Hegseth’s requests despite the financial threats and hoped the secretary of defense would “reconsider” his position. Read more at The Daily Beast.