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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.
Notably, the President’s post did not mention any proposal to label Anthropic as a chain threat, as has already been suggested as a result. However, the next tweet from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was successful in this threat.
“In accordance with the President’s order for the Federal Government to stop using Anthropic technology, I am directing the Department of Defense to designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk to National Security,” Secretary Hegseth wrote. “Effective immediately, no contractor, vendor, or partner that does business with the United States military may do any business with Anthropic.”
The Pentagon’s argument focused on Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI models to be used for mass surveillance of domestic or autonomous weapons, which Secretary 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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OpenAI has come out to support the Anthropic concept. According to the BBCCEO Sam Altman sent a memo to employees on Thursday that shared the same “red lines” and that any agreement regarding OpenAI’s security would also reject the use of “illegal or improper deployments in the cloud, such as home monitoring and autonomous devices.”
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who clashed with Altman in November 2023 and has also launched his own AI company, re-entered the discussion on Friday, writing on X: “It’s great that Anthropic hasn’t backed down, and it’s great that OpenAI has taken the same approach.
In the future, there will be many problems of this kind, and it will be necessary for the right leaders to step forward, so that the competitors can solve their differences. Good to see this happening today. “
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google each received it contract award from the US Defense Department last July. While others Google employees have come to support Anthropic, Google and its parent company have not commented.
