Katy Perry shares screenshot with heart on Twitter after Donald Trump ‘bans’ Anthropic

Pop star Katy Perry has unexpectedly entered the current debate over Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of Defense. Perry took social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to share a screenshot of her Claude Pro subscription. The post shared by Perry comes with a simple caption ‘done’ along with a heart drawn around the $214.99 annual billing option. The post shared by Perry quickly went viral, amassing around 3.4 millions views and 24,000 likes. The fans and observers interpreted that the gesture of the pop star shows solidarity with Anthropic, which was blacklisted by the Pentagon after refusing to drop safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

Anthropic vs US government: How it started

The crisis had been building all week. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a deadline – 5:01pm on Friday – to agree to give the Pentagon full, unrestricted access to its AI model Claude, or lose the company's $200 million government contract. Anthropic refused. The company has maintained throughout that its tools should not be used for two things: mass surveillance of American citizens and for fully autonomous weapons systems capable of killing without human oversight. The Pentagon accused the company of placing “Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued a firm rejection of Pentagon pressure to loosen safeguards on its frontier AI model, Claude. In a strongly worded blog post, Amodei said there are two demands his company will not accept ‘under any circumstances’ even if it means losing government contracts. “We cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” Amodei wrote. He also warned that the demand made by Pentagon for ‘any lawful use’ would force the company to cross two red lines which are mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

Elon Musk joined the Pentagon, backing the US Department of War's criticism of the AI company. Reposting a post by Under Secretary of War Emil Michael on X, Musk wrote: “Anthropic hates Western Civilization.” This isn't the first time Musk has gone after Anthropic. Just weeks ago, he called the company's AI “misanthropic and evil” and personally attacked Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell over her role in shaping Claude's ethics.

Sam Altman says he trusts Anthropic

“For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety,” Altman said. “I don't personally think that the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies,” he added, telling OpenAI staff he shared Anthropic's "red lines" on military AI use and wanted to help de-escalate the situation.


Hours after the Friday deadline passed, Altman announced that OpenAI had reached its own deal with the Pentagon to deploy its models on classified networks — with safety guardrails intact.