Anthropic Vows Court Fight After Trump Bans Claude from U.S. Government — Pentagon Labels It a Supply Chain Risk
In the most dramatic confrontation yet between the Trump administration and the AI industry, the Pentagon has declared Anthropic’s Claude a national security supply chain risk — stripping the company of a $200 million Department of Defense contract and ordering all federal agencies to stop using its models. Anthropic has responded by vowing to challenge the ban in court. And in a move that surprised no one in Silicon Valley, OpenAI immediately announced a new Pentagon deal to fill the void. ...