Overview
- President Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out Anthropic and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the company a supply‑chain risk barring Pentagon contractors from working with it, and Anthropic says it will challenge the move in court.
- Two sources told CBS News the U.S. military used Anthropic’s Claude during the Iran strikes over the weekend and continues to use it despite the government directive to pause the technology.
- OpenAI quickly struck a classified‑systems agreement with the Pentagon then amended the terms to explicitly bar intentional domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and to emphasize human responsibility for use of force.
- A senior Pentagon official, Emil Michael, warned that restrictive commercial AI contracts risked paralyzing operations and said Claude had been the only AI model available on classified systems at the time of his review.
- Anthropic submitted a proposal for a $100 million Pentagon drone‑swarm challenge focused on translating commander intent and coordinating drones rather than autonomous targeting, but it was not selected, according to reports.