"Department of War AI will not be woke. We're building war ready weapons and systems, not chatbots for an Ivy League faculty lounge. Later on, President Donald Trump lambasted Anthropic as a RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY."
"David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar, had been criticizing Anthropic for months, accusing the company of running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering. Unlike many of its peer labs, Anthropic had been vocal in opposing the administration's preemption of state AI regulation."
"Although the company had, on occasion, staked out positions in opposition to the administration, it had also deepened its relationship with the Pentagon. Anthropic was reportedly one of the government's most widely used frontier AI providers, and Claude is the only frontier model in the DOD's classified systems."
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued an ultimatum to Anthropic to renegotiate its Pentagon contract or be designated a supply chain risk, a classification typically reserved for adversarial foreign companies. The administration, led by White House AI czar David Sacks, accused Anthropic of regulatory capture and fear-mongering, particularly regarding the company's opposition to federal preemption of state AI regulations. Despite Anthropic's deepening relationship with the Pentagon and Claude being the only frontier model in DOD classified systems, the administration's core argument centered on claims that Claude carries political biases affecting performance. The confrontation reflected months of tension between the Trump administration and the AI lab over regulatory approaches and the company's vocal positions opposing certain administration policies.
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