The Department of Defense may designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.”
Should Anthropic get the designation, “anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company,” Axios says. The two sides have apparently been negotiating for months over how the military can use Anthropic’s AI tools. [Link: Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment | https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth | Axios]