4 March 2026

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

Dave Lawler, Colin Demarest, Maria Curi

The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model, Claude — a first step toward a potential designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," Axios has learned.

Why it matters: That penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, such as Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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