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Pentagon Removes Anthropic Claude After Supply-Chain Warning

By Drooid · Sep 29, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump will dine with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday.
Bill Gates seeks a meeting with Trump to advocate AI safety safeguards.
Gates warned AI could enable events causing a billion deaths.
Trump argued that slowing AI would let China overtake the United States by up to 18 months.
Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk and removed Claude models from its systems.

History

Historical Context

In 2015 OpenAI launched as a nonprofit with a $1 billion safety pledge from Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, but had collected only about $133 million by 2021. That early focus on AI risk set a precedent that now shapes policy, as Donald Trump met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Bill Gates urged safeguards amid intensifying U.S.–China competition.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump will dine with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday.
Bill Gates seeks a meeting with Trump to advocate AI safety safeguards.
Gates warned AI could enable events causing a billion deaths.
Trump argued that slowing AI would let China overtake the United States by up to 18 months.
Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk and removed Claude models from its systems.

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