ACCORDING to Associated Press, President Donald Trump said on 27 February 2026 that he was ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after a public dispute with the Pentagon over AI safety. The piece notes that the Pentagon had set a deadline for Anthropic to permit unrestricted military use of its AI or face consequences, with a cutoff at 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday.
It reports that Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said the company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defence Department’s demands, and that Anthropic said new contract language could allow safeguards to be disregarded at will. The article also mentions that OpenAI and Google, along with Elon Musk’s xAI, have contracts to supply their AI models to the military. It describes Claude as Anthropic’s chatbot and frames the dispute as part of broader tensions over how AI should be used in national security settings.