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- The U.S. Department of Defense stopped using Anthropic's AI tools.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled Anthropic a national-security supply-chain risk in February 2026.
- A divided U.S. Court of Appeals panel upheld that risk label on September 25 2026.
- Anthropic refused to remove safety guardrails, citing concerns about mass surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons.
- Anthropic signed a $200 million Pentagon contract in July 2025 and plans a pre-Thanksgiving IPO near $2 trillion.
