Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump said he would direct every federal agency to immediately stop using technology from AI developer Anthropic.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Anthropic is mired in a row with the White House after refusing demands that it agree to give the US military unfettered access to its AI tools. The refusal led US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to say he’s deemed Anthropic a “supply chain risk”.
The label would make Anthropic the first US company to ever publicly receive such treatment. The company said Friday night it “will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court”.
Earlier, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the artificial intelligence company had rejected Pentagon’s demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology, deepening the unusually public clash with the Trump administration that is threatening to pull its contract and take other drastic steps.
The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it’s not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defense Department “made virtually no progress on preventing Claude’s use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.”
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson, said on social media that the military “has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.”
