- Trump said he’s directing all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s tech.
- It comes amid a dispute between the AI giant and the Department of Defense.
- “We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump says federal agencies won’t be using Anthropic’s technology anymore.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
It comes amid a dispute between the AI giant and the Department of Defense.
Trump said that there would be a six-month phase-out period for departments, including the Department of Defense, that are “using Anthropic’s products, at various levels.”
“WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about,” Trump wrote.
Trump’s announcement comes just a few hours before the Friday evening deadline defense officials had given Anthropic to agree to the military’s terms of use for the company’s frontier model, Claude.
Earlier this week, the two parties came to an impasse over how the military can deploy Claude.
The issue appeared to revolve around two safeguards Anthropic was not willing to drop: mass surveillance of US citizens and autonomous weapons.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei until Friday, 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time to get on board with the military.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Read the full article here
