Anthropic on Thursday said a Pentagon designation of the AI company as a “supply chain risk to America’s national security” won’t impact their business partners as heavily as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth implied last week.
Hegseth had announced in a post on X that, as a result of a breakdown in contract negotiations with the AI company on Friday, “no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic” as part of the supply chain risk designation, a label usually reserved for companies tied to foreign adversaries.
But Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday in