Anthropic Rejects Supply Chain Risk Label

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• •The US Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk under 10 U.S.C. §3252 and 41 U.S.C. §4713, banning its Claude AI from military systems and triggering a six-month phase-out for federal contractors.[1][5]
• •Anthropic alleges the designation retaliates against its First Amendment-protected views on AI safety, refusing uses like mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons after a February 2026 meeting with Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth.[2][3]
• •President Trump directed all federal agencies via Truth Social to stop using Anthropic's tools, marking the first known use of the risk label against a domestic US company typically reserved for foreign adversaries.[2][3]

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