Via a message shared on Truth Social, President Trump instructed federal agencies to discontinue employing all Anthropic offerings following the firm’s public disagreement with the Department of Defense. The leader granted a half-year transition period for agencies utilizing the wares, yet underscored that Anthropic would no longer be accepted as a government supplier.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again,” the leader stated in his message.
Significantly, the message makes no mention of intentions to activate the Defense Production Act or classify Anthropic as a vulnerability in the supply chain. Rather, the President implored the corporation to cooperate throughout the six-month transition phase, warning of “significant civil and legal repercussions” should it fail to do so.
The disagreement revolved around Anthropic’s unwillingness to permit its AI systems to be employed for either extensive internal monitoring or entirely independent armaments, a stance Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth deemed excessively limiting.
Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei reaffirmed his position in a public statement issued on Thursday, declining to yield on the pair of issues.
“Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters — with our two requested safeguards in place,” Amodei penned at that juncture. “Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions.”
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