Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated AI company Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, following President Trump's ban on its products. This move could affect major tech firms like Palantir and AWS that use Claude for Pentagon work, with potential broader impacts unclear.
Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now designating the AI company as a "supply-chain risk".
The decision could immediately impact numerous major tech companies that use Claude in their line of work for the Pentagon, including Palantir and AWS. It is not immediately clear to what extent the Pentagon may blacklist companies that contract with Claude for other services outside of national security.
After a week of tense negotiations over the company's acc …