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The Trump administration designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and banned its technology from Pentagon assets and other government systems. The designation leaves CISOs, particularly government contractors, needing to identify and remove Anthropic AI technology across their organizations without a clear view of where it is embedded. A March 6 Pentagon memo directs military components to remove Anthropic products within 180 days and requires contractors to certify compliance.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC that Palantir still uses Anthropic's Claude while the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk plays out. He said Palantir's products are integrated with Anthropic and will probably be integrated with other large language models in the future. The Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, Anthropic has sued to reverse the designation, and the Pentagon plans to phase out Anthropic over six months.

Anthropic filed a complaint in San Francisco federal court against the Department of Defense after the agency labeled it a supply chain risk. The dispute followed weeks of conflict over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic's AI systems, which Anthropic had limited on mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic called the DOD's actions unprecedented and unlawful.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed that the U.S. government declared the company a supply chain risk and said Anthropic has "no choice" but to challenge the designation in court. The designation requires defense vendors and contractors to certify they do not use Anthropic's Claude models in their Pentagon work, and Anthropic is the only American company ever publicly named a supply chain risk.

The Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" after failed negotiations over acceptable use policies, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing one source. The designation bars defense contractors from working with the government if they use Claude in their products. The label is typically applied to foreign companies with ties to adversarial governments, and this is the first time it has been applied to an American company.

The US government has officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, the first time such a label has been applied to a US firm. The Pentagon's designation followed a dispute over Anthropic's refusal to grant the government unfettered access to its AI tools for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

The Department of Defense has notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products are designated a supply-chain risk, according to Bloomberg, after weeks of conflict over military use of Anthropic's AI systems. The designation requires any company or agency working with the Pentagon to certify that it does not use Anthropic's models, a move critics call unprecedented.

The Department of Defense has officially informed Anthropic's leadership that the company and its products are designated a supply chain risk, effective immediately, according to a senior department official. The label requires defense vendors and contractors to certify they do not use Anthropic's models in their Pentagon work, and Anthropic says it will challenge the designation in court.

The Information Technology Industry Council, whose members include Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Anthropic, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressing concern over the designation of a U.S. company as a supply chain risk. The letter does not name Anthropic, which received the label after failing to reach terms with the Defense Department. The group argues that contract disputes should be resolved through negotiation or by selecting alternate providers, and that such emergency authorities are reserved for foreign adversaries.

Hundreds of tech workers signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, and asking Congress to examine whether such authorities against an American technology company are appropriate. The designation followed Anthropic's refusal to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems, after it declined to allow mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons without a human in the loop. Anthropic said the designation is legally unsound and that it would challenge it in court.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after negotiations over Claude broke down. Anthropic had requested exceptions barring mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic called the designation "legally unsound" and said a designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to Claude's use in DoW contracts.