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In the Social Truth memo, President Trump ordered government agencies to stop using all Anthropic products after the company’s demise. public dispute with the Department of Defense. The president allowed a six-month freeze on the departments that use the products, but emphasized that Anthropic is no longer accepted as a government contractor.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and we won’t do business with it,” the president wrote.
In particular, this post does not mention any plans to invoke the Defense Production Act or to name Anthropic as a public threat. Instead, the president urged the company to be profitable within six months, threatening “serious criminal and criminal consequences” if it didn’t.
The dispute centered on Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI models to be used in mass surveillance at home or autonomous devices, which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth found restrictive.
CEO Dario Amodei repeated his actions in a public post on Thursdayrefusing to give up on those two points.
“Our priority is to continue to serve the department and our veterans – we have the two weapons we requested,” Amodei wrote at the time. “If the department decides to move away from Anthropic, we will do our best to make the transition to another provider, to avoid disrupting the military’s strategic, operational, or other critical operations.”
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