Pentagon labels AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk
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The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately." (Image credit: Patrick Sison)
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Technology Pentagon labels AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk March 6, 2026 1:08 AM ET By The Associated Press Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Sison/AP The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude. The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately." The decision appeared to shut down the opportunity for further negotiation with Anthropic, nearly a week after President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of endangering national security. Trump and Hegseth announced a series of threatened punishments last Friday, on the eve of the Iran war, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down over concerns the company's products could be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons. Technology Deadline looms as Anthropic rejects Pentagon demands it remove AI safeguards Amodei said in a statement Thursday that "we do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court." The Pentagon statement said, "this has been about one fundamental principle: the military being able to use technology for all lawful purposes. The military will not allow a vendor to insert itself into the chain of command by restricting the lawful use of a critical capability and put our warfighters at risk." Amodei countered that the narrow exceptions Anthropic sought to limit surveillance and autonomous weapons "relate to high-level usage areas, and not operational decision-making." He said there were "productive conversations" wit...
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