Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk
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President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI products and gave them six months to phase out usage, after the company disputed with the Department of Defense. The Pentagon's Secretary of Defense designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk to national security, meaning military contractors can no longer do business with the company, because Anthropic refused to let its AI models be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (systems that make decisions and take action without human control).
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Original source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-moves-to-designate-anthropic-as-a-supply-chain-risk/
First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 07:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%