President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using technology made by Anthropic, he said in a Truth Social post on Feb. 27.
This development followed escalating negotiations this week between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who ordered his Department of War (DOW) to designate the company a supply-chain risk to national security, he said in a statement Friday after Trump’s announcement.
The Pentagon had previously asked the company, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, to open its artificial intelligence (AI) models to the U.S. military, setting a Friday at 5 p.m. deadline for Anthropic to agree to terms, but Trump’s announcement came about an hour before that….
Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Cease All Use of Anthropic Tech
