{"id":998001,"date":"2026-03-13T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998001"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:06:38","slug":"pentagon-opens-door-to-exempt-anthropic-use-beyond-6-month-ramp-down-memo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/pentagon-opens-door-to-exempt-anthropic-use-beyond-6-month-ramp-down-memo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon opens door to exempt Anthropic use beyond 6-month ramp-down, memo says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has told its senior leaders that use of Anthropic&#8217;s AI tools may continue beyond a previously announced six-month phase-out period if deemed critical to national security, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The memo is dated March 6 and signed by Pentagon Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies. It says \u200cthe exemptions \u2060can be \u2060authorised &#8220;in rare and extraordinary circumstances&#8221; and &#8220;will only be considered for mission-critical activities directly supporting national security operations where no viable alternative exists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has told its senior leaders that use of Anthropic&#8217;s AI tools may continue beyond a previously announced six-month phase-out period if deemed critical to national security, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The memo is dated March 6 and signed by Pentagon Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies. It says \u200cthe exemptions \u2060can be \u2060authorised &#8220;in rare and extraordinary circumstances&#8221; and &#8220;will only be considered for mission-critical activities directly supporting national security operations where no viable alternative exists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}