Can Anthropic survive taking on Trump’s Pentagon?
In an unprecedented dispute between the US government and a private business, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk — a measure usually reserved for companies from adversary nations, like China’s Huawei.
The Pentagon is furious that Anthropic is insisting on certain conditions for the use of its technology — no mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons systems — even as the military has been using the company’s models for classified operations for more than two years.
