The Pentagon has recently unleashed extreme pressure and threatened to list American artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” According to Reuters‘ latest report, U.S. President Trump announced on February 27, local time, that he had instructed all U.S. federal government agencies to immediately stop using all of the company‘s technology. Trump angrily berated the “extreme left-wing lunatics” controlling the company for committing “catastrophic mistakes.” Reuters said the U.S. government‘s practice of listing its own companies as “supply chain risks” is truly rare.
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According to reports, the U.S. Department of Defense had previously pressed Anthropic to allow the military to use its large AI models without restrictions, but the company refused.
In response, Trump publicly raged on social media on the 27th, “The United States will never allow extreme left-wing, awakeningist enterprises to interfere with how the great army fights and wins the war! This decision belongs to the Supreme Commander, and to the outstanding military leaders I appointed. Those left-wing lunatics at Anthropic tried to coerce the ‘War Department’ to comply with the company‘s terms of service instead of our constitution, which was a catastrophic mistake. Their selfish behavior is endangering the lives and security of the American people, putting American officers and soldiers in danger, and putting national security at risk.”
“Therefore, I order all federal agencies of the U.S. government to immediately stop using the technology of the Anthropic company,” Trump said. “We don‘t need it, we don’t want it, and we will never cooperate with them again! For agencies such as the Department of War that use Anthropic products, a six-month transition period will be set. Anthropic had better be taken seriously and cooperate during the transition period, or I will use all my presidential powers to force their compliance and pursue their major civil and criminal responsibility.”
According to previous reports by U.S. media, the U.S. military used Anthropic‘s large AI model, Claude, in its military operation against Venezuela. After the news was exposed, Anthropic asked the Pentagon to verify whether the news was true and expressed concern to the other party. This intensified the company‘s differences with the Pentagon on AI applications and war ethics. Hegseth held a meeting with the company‘s CEO, Amodi, on 24, demanding that the other party allow the U.S. military to use Claude without restriction, but the two sides failed to effectively resolve the conflict.