Trump has ordered government agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tools
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And use… what? xAI? Nobody else will agree to what DoD wants, except possibly DeepSeek.
Apparently OpenAI https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-reaches-deal-deploy-ai-models-us-department-war-classified-network-2026-02-28/
Well that moved quickly.
I think all big AI companies agreed to do what DoD wants except Anthropic
Sam Altman made a public statement yesterday to the contrary, and other AI- related businesses in the valley said “us too!”
Of course, that says nothing about how they’re actually being used already, but at least it’s their public position.
[edit] and today, OpenAI caved.