# Dario Amodei, the curly-haired chief executive of Anthropic, informed the Trump administration that his San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company would limit the Pentagon’s use of its technology.

*aerospace · news · 2026-04-19 · The Sunday Times*

## Key points

- Anthropic's Claude AI integration allowed the US military to increase daily target capacity from 100 to 5,000.
- Anthropic's new AI, Mythos, can exploit decades-old vulnerabilities and threatens global banking system stability.
- Despite being blacklisted, Anthropic met with top Trump officials to address Mythos's existential cybersecurity risks.
- Anthropic restricts Pentagon use of its tech for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
- Anthropic's valuation has more than doubled to $800 billion ahead of a rumored IPO this year.

**Companies:** Apple, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Nvidia, Anthropic, Palantir
**Countries:** USA, Iran, Venezuela

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