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Trump Bans Anthropic AI for Pentagon Dispute, OpenAI Steps In

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Photo by Reuters/Priyanshu Singh

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Forbes India•01-03-2026, 11:20

Trump Bans Anthropic AI for Pentagon Dispute, OpenAI Steps In

•US President Donald Trump has directed all federal agencies to ban AI tools from Anthropic following a disagreement over military use.
•Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow models like Claude for "mass domestic surveillance" or "fully autonomous weapons."
•Anthropic had a $200 million contract with the Pentagon and its models were used for mission-critical applications.
•The Department of War threatened to blacklist Anthropic and label its models as a "supply-chain risk."
•OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal with the Pentagon, agreeing on principles against mass surveillance and for human responsibility in force.

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