{"id":225491,"date":"2026-02-27T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/president-trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropic-after-pentagon-dispute-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:53:14","slug":"president-trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropic-after-pentagon-dispute-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/president-trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropic-after-pentagon-dispute-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic after Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on Truth Social, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease use of all Anthropic products after the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/27\/anthropic-vs-the-pentagon-whats-actually-at-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public dispute with the Department of Defense<\/a>. The president allowed for a six-month phase-out period for departments using the products, but emphasized that Anthropic was no longer welcome as a federal contractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t need it, we don\u2019t want it, and will not do business with them again,\u201d the president wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, the post does not mention any plans to invoke the Defense Production Act or designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Instead, the President urged the company to be helpful during the six-month phase out period, threatening \u201cmajor civil and criminal consequences\u201d if it did not.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispute centered on Anthropic\u2019s refusal to allow its AI models to be used to power either mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth found unduly restrictive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CEO Dario Amodei reiterated his stance <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/statement-department-of-war\" target=\"_blank\">in a public post on Thursday<\/a>, refusing to compromise on the two points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters \u2014 with our two requested safeguards in place,\u201d Amodei wrote at the time. \u201cShould the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 9, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/27\/president-trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropic-after-pentagon-dispute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on Truth Social, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease use of all Anthropic products after the company\u2019s public dispute with the Department of Defense. The president allowed for a six-month phase-out period for departments using the products, but emphasized that Anthropic was no longer welcome as a federal contractor. \u201cWe don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}