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President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • paozac
    This might actually make Anthropic very popular among those who do not support the current US presidency, a significant market share.
  • glerk
    The corporation styling itself as "the department of war" is only as powerful as the technology it can command. It's hilarious to see the likes of Trump and Hegseth complain about Big Tech strongarming them while they are begging like dogs to get access to technology their kind wouldn't be able to create in a thousand years.Reminds me of that scene in the dark knight when Bane says "Do you feel in charge?". Well do you, Pete? Why should Pete Hegseth be in charge of anything? "Department of war" lol. These punks need to step aside and let the adults take over for the good of humanity.Props to Anthropic for standing their ground and not getting bullied by their inferiors. You earned a lot of respect today.Props to OpenAI for being slick and playing the game, hopefully they can take control of this decaying corpse from the inside and transform it into something better.
  • motbus3
    Is it weird that out a failed negotiation, there is a threat against a private entity publicly?Isn't it supposed to be freedom of something? Does this trigger any laws or something? Just for curiosity sake
  • gormen
    As far as I understand, this is about banning the use of Anthropic for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. And while the idea of building one fully controlled, nationwide AI system may sound tempting, in reality it’s still just a fantasy and wouldn’t be very useful in practice.
  • surprisetalk
  • underdeserver
    Truth social post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1161445529692...Six-month phase out period, that's something. I guess the DoW's been using Claude quite a bit.
  • Animats
    Something interesting is going on around Trump's rants. Some White House staffers are directing lower-level staff to ignore them and focus on the economy. James Blair [2] seems to be leading this. Blair was in charge of political strategy for Trump's campaign, and he won, so he's probably not going to be fired.There have been presidents in decline who were semi-captured by their staffs. Biden, Reagan, and Roosevelt all were. It may be that Trump gets trotted out now and then to deliver his standard speech (his speeches all have roughly the same content, regardless of subject or venue), but the work of the White House involves him less.Watch to see which threats get followed up with action, and which ones don't.[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/trump-gop-repub...[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blair_(political_advisor...
  • drivingmenuts
    That's a solid gold recommendation for Anthropic, far as I'm concerned.
  • thomassmith65
    Please, Anthropic, make 30 second commercials about this dispute!Not a hard sell, but just "These are the two demands the government gave us, and here's why we did not agree to them"It makes the company so attractive to most of the public - not just those who dislike Trump, but also those don't trust government.
  • ZeroCool2u
  • mclean
    So, after all is done and dust has settled, Anthropic will be the only big'ish tech company that not sold it soul to devil.
  • anon7000
    Why the fuck does the president have authority to set specific IT policy for the government. He might not even have it, he loves making policies he doesn’t actually have the authority to make.
  • zmj
    This is the happy ending.
  • blitzar
    Is this as real as the Ai generated medical ship that is steaming towards Greenland as we speak?
  • baal80spam
  • anon
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  • tapvt
    Is this not a greater loss for the government than for Anthropic?
  • lvl155
    Might be the best thing to happen to Anthropic from a PR perspective and possibly IPO.
  • loss_flow
    The next question, what person wants to send all their personal questions to an AI lab that will help the government do domestic surveillance
  • ViscountPenguin
    Good fucking on anthropic, I've long held that they seem like the AI company best handling existential risk, and this elevates that opinion. If you don't want terminator, not helping people invent terminator is a good first step.
  • readitalready
    Now will OpenAI have the same limits? LMAO at the US Government having to go with a Chinese open-source model...
  • stopbulying
    > [ Won't be my little defense b? Then you can't do government contracts at all! ]
  • meco
    Does this mean the pentagon backed down from the SCR threat?
  • throwaw12
    I guess Sama is happy.Also I wonder what's happening with democracy in the US, with this level of presidential control to mess up everything, is US moving towards dictatorship?
  • xiphias2
    For anybody who thinks it's about Trump vs other administration: it's not, both AI surveillance of all people and using it for automatic fight was just bound to happen.The only question is whether the safety of the models were really done well enough to protect the people and be a net positive force in the world.I guess if they would be safely trained to do more good than bad (how Dario and SamA said), there wouldn't even be a need for the contract terms.
  • romulussilvia
    if we can't have it no one can?
  • p-o
    The messaging is not normal, the intent is absolutely abhorrent. With every passing week, the rhetoric coming from him gets more violent: I'm worried.
  • aaronharnly
    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/anthropic-mil...Text (it is short):> President Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an order that could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work.> Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump used harsh words for Anthropic calling it a “radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about.”> Still, Mr. Trump announced a “Six Month phase out” for the Pentagon and some other agencies, a period of time that could allow for more extended negotiations between Anthropic and the Defense Department. Calling the company “Leftwing nut jobs,” he said they had made a mistake trying to strong-arm the Pentagon.> Mr. Trump’s statement came as the Pentagon and Anthropic were, despite an escalating war of words, continuing to negotiate a compromise. While some current and former American officials had expressed hope of some sort of deal before the Pentagon’s 5:01 p.m. deadline, Mr. Trump’s comments will undoubtedly complicate matters.The Truth Social post, which is, well, you can decide for yourself: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1161445529692...
  • taurath
    Now we will all see how much power the president has over the markets which clearly prefer Anthropics offering
  • unethical_ban
    Imagine if a private company had developed the nuclear bomb, and said in its terms "This can never be used as a first strike weapon and must only be used as a retaliation against imminent existential attacks on the US homeland". I think a lot of people would have lauded the attempt by a weapon's creators to restrain the destructive potential of their creation.Separately:An opinion piece in the NYT suggested that Anthropic should not have restrictions and that "lawful use" provision should properly constrain the government. The fact that we have to hope Anthropic holds to their commitment is a show of no-confidence in the rule of law and the legislature of the United States to protect the people.Seriously. All they said was "don't do mass surveillance and don't create autonomous killbots" and the president literally frames it as "Anthropic vs. the Constitution" and calls them woke radicals. How any citizen doesn't immediately have their stomach churning is beyond me.Oh wait, out of [Fox, WSJ, NYT, WaPo, NPR, Newsmax] only Fox doesn't have an article up about it, and Newsmax left out the part about domestic mass surveillance. I am shocked!
  • aaronharnly
    This is the Truth Social post, which the article quotes but doesn't quite convey the flavor of:https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1161445529692...> THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.> The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.> Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.> WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
  • LordGrey
    If OpenAI and Google stay in sync with Anthropic on this, will Trump try to ban all of them from the federal government? What alternatives would they turn to?
  • tayo42
    So the government is phasing them out, or the company needs to get their act together?Rarely see a company tell the government no though.
  • userbinator
    Ban all AI use from government, so maybe we can actually have real humans in charge again.
  • ChrisArchitect
  • noelsusman
    Why does Trump want to give a woke radical leftist AI the ability to autonomously kill people? Doesn't seem like the smartest decision.
  • _alternator_
    This should come as no surprise. The administration has no tolerance for anyone with “values” or “scruples” that challenge their power. They fired Judge Advocate Generals (military lawyers) that refused to authorize strikes on civilian boats, for one recent example. If you say ‘no’ for any reason, they fire you.
  • epolanski
    > "Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow," Trump added.The Al Capone executive.No surprise most CEOs are either licking his butt or staying silent, there's clearly a climate of fear.
  • nixass
    They just know the circus will end fairly soon. No point in undermining its own future for this clown show
  • Sebguer
    oh no! anyway...
  • ChrisArchitect
  • Jamesbeam
    As you can see the president is under a lot of pressure.He is losing the ICE war, because the protesters used tactics of the civil rights movements of the past pretty effectively and now he is stuck between losing the narrative of protecting Americans by further escalation or losing power as a direct consequence of said escalation and more Americans getting murdered by government agents.Of the 8 or so wars he pretended to have stopped only two are still in a non-active state. The world is more dangerous than it ever was in our lifetime.But I’m glad the man got a noble peace prize and probably put it right next to the golden pager he got from jerusalems favorite war criminal.Let’s not forget the fourth anniversary of putins three day special operation just passed. A special operation by a special boy, that should have been ended on day one of his presidency.He is losing the war of the public opinion, as he is approaching the midterms with the lowest approval rating and on top of that the whole Epstein thing is sticking to his shoes and gets smellier by the day and he can’t shake it off.The Supreme Court took away his bonking stick, and he ordered a pretty impressive armada to the front door of Iran but khameni is old and rather wants to die a martyr than on youtube getting hung by the neck and dragged through Teheran behind a dumping truck.And now those damn woke lunatics at anthropic won’t allow him to spy on his political enemies and every American and if necessary kill them autonomously, probably with the same red button he uses to order fresh BigMacs into the oval office.The poor man is really not having a good time. But I’m sure he can dry his tears with a few of those crypto billions he made from selling the presidency.This is such an interesting timeline. In fourty years none of the younger people are going to believe us, we are all going to eat our rat pudding in a trump home for the elderly under constant ai supervision, because they think we’re insane.
  • faanghacker
    Shouldn't this be great news that the government is banned from using Anthropic?I don't know why suddenly the narrative here turns to spinning this as "Trump is evil" when this is actually keeping the AI company out of the government's reach.The level of cognitive dissonance here is unreal.
  • anonym29
    (1603ET): An hour before a 5PM ET deadline, President Donald Trump directed 'EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology," posting on Truth Social that "We don't need it, we don't want it, and we will not do business with them again."
  • deep_noz
    pathetic
  • demuis
    Would love nothing more than for sama to refuse government contracts in solidarity. Free enterprise isn’t free
  • shablulman
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  • small_model
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  • giancarlostoro
    I wouldnt want an AI model to hold my military hostage. DOD should have strong requirements when making contracts with AI companies, including having the models be on their own infrastructure, fully locked down with a master prompt they can see and update.
  • calgoo
    Well, thats good news!!! hopefully the full government contract can be cancelled and Anthropic can actually live by their own words, and not just apply it to the US!