Secretary of War Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk on February 27, 2026, following negotiations over the company's refusal to allow its Claude AI model to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic stated it will challenge the designation in court, asserting it lacks statutory authority and would set a dangerous precedent, while maintaining that the restriction would only affect Department of War contract work and not commercial customers.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk on February 27, 2026, following negotiations over the company's refusal to allow its Claude AI model to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic stated it will challenge the designation in court, asserting it lacks statutory authority and would set a dangerous precedent, while maintaining that the restriction would only affect Department of War contract work and not commercial customers.