Major US defense companies, including Lockheed Martin, will comply with the Pentagon’s order to remove Anthropic AI tools from their procurement chains, even if the Trump administration’s ban on Anthropic AI is challenged and overturned in court.
Major US defense companies, including Lockheed Martin, will comply with the Pentagon’s order to remove Anthropic AI tools from their procurement chains, even if the Trump administration’s ban on Anthropic AI is challenged and overturned in court.
Reuters writes about this, citing lawyers close to the issue.
The publication notes that US defense concerns are adapting very quickly to the preferences of the Trump administration, seeking not to lose the favor of the leadership and the opportunity to receive defense orders.
«We will follow the direction of the President and the Department of Defense,» Lockheed Martin said in a statement when asked whether they would continue to use Anthropic’s AI tools following these steps by the Trump administration.
Recall that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has generally promised to recognize Anthropic as a threat to national security and stated that no contractor, supplier, or partner doing business with the United States military can conduct any commercial activity with this company.
The move has raised legal questions because, according to lawyers, none of the powers the Trump administration could have used to ban Anthropic would prohibit defense contractors from using the AI. But the shaky legal basis for the ban, the newspaper writes, will not prevent companies dependent on the Pentagon from complying.
«Most companies that do business with the U.S. government are extremely aware of what the government wants and are likely already taking steps to clean their supply chains of Anthropic,» commented Franklin Turner, an attorney specializing in government contracts.
Recall that in late February, it became known that Anthropic refused the Pentagon’s demands regarding the potential expansion of scenarios for using its Claude model in government systems. The issue was the possible use of AI in mass data analysis tools, use in military systems, and expansion of powers without some of the built-in restrictions.
President Donald Trump himself said that the leftist lunatics from Anthropic made a catastrophic mistake .
