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Ted Cruz: “Secretary Hegseth laid out his reasoning that Anthropic was…”

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Andrew, I'll confess I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic. Claude is one of the many AI tools that can be very helpful. Secretary Hegseth laid out his reasoning that Anthropic was trying to control and limit how the Department of War would employ an AI. And he rightly said that the military is not going to allow a private sector country to set military and defense policy for America. I think that's reasonable. (09:25–09:34)

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