Overview
- Anthropic filed two lawsuits on Monday—one in federal court in California and another in the D.C. Circuit—seeking to void the designation and block enforcement, arguing violations of free speech and due process.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk after the company refused to lift guardrails against mass domestic surveillance of Americans or directing fully autonomous weapons.
- President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s products, with the Pentagon allowing a six‑month phase‑out of Claude from defense systems that had integrated the model.
- Reporting indicates Claude was embedded in classified workflows, including Iran‑related operations, prompting the Pentagon to pursue redundancy with other vendors such as OpenAI, xAI and potentially Google.
- OpenAI struck a classified‑use agreement with the Defense Department and later clarified contract language on domestic surveillance, while its robotics head Caitlin Kalinowski resigned citing concerns over surveillance and lethal autonomy.