Court documents unsealed this week have pulled back the curtain on how one of America's hottest AI companies fell out with the Pentagon. The emails, first reported by The Wall Street Journal and released as part of Anthropic's ongoing litigation against the Department of Defense, trace a months-long exchange between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.

Court-released emails between Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Pentagon undersecretary Emil Michael show the fight was over AI guardrails, not access.

Court documents unsealed this week have pulled back the curtain on how one of America's hottest AI companies fell out with the Pentagon. The emails, first reported by The Wall…