OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, delivers remarks during a press conference at The White House in Washington on on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Late last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic, the only company that had provided the Pentagon with artificial intelligence technologies for use on classified systems. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By CADE METZ Late last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic, the only…
