Mayor Sadiq Khan invites embattled AI firm Anthropic to expand in London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan invited AI company Anthropic to expand in the city after the U.S. Pentagon designated it a supply chain risk (a label meaning the government views the company as not secure enough to work with) because Anthropic refused to give defense agencies unrestricted access to its AI tools and raised concerns about using its Claude model for mass surveillance or autonomous military targeting. The company plans to challenge the Pentagon's designation in court, and Microsoft announced it would continue using Anthropic's technology except for the U.S. Department of Defense.