Defense tech moves away from Claude
CNBC • • nation
Key Points:
- Following the Trump administration's decision to blacklist Anthropic and label its AI technology a supply chain risk, defense contractors are instructing employees to stop using Anthropic's Claude model and switch to alternative AI systems.
- Several defense tech companies involved in Department of Defense contracts are actively replacing Claude, with firms like Lockheed Martin expected to remove Anthropic technology from their supply chains.
- Anthropic, which generates about 80% of its revenue from enterprise customers and had a major $200 million DoD contract, refused government demands to guarantee its AI wouldn't be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, prompting the ban.
- The designation currently applies only to defense contracts, and Anthropic disputes the authority of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to restrict government
