Companies that do business with the US military are pivoting away from Anthropic’s AI after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he was designating it a “supply chain risk” last week, CNBC reports. While Anthropic can still challenge the designation in court, defense companies say they’re abandoning Claude preemptively “out of an abundance of caution.”
[Link: Defense tech companies are dropping Claude after Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist | https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/pentagon-blacklist-anthropic-defense-tech-claude.html | CNBC]
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Defense contractors are already backing off on Claude.
Companies that do business with the US military are pivoting away from Anthropic’s AI after De… [789 chars]
Source: The Verge | Published: 2026-03-04T18:57:20Z
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