President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the federal government to “immediately cease” using technology produced by artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic, which he called “woke.”
Anthropic, the developer of AI chatbot Claude, entered a standoff against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth when he gave the company until Feb. 27 to give the military “broad access” to its AI models, threatening to label the company a “supply chain risk,” Axios reported Tuesday. Using all capital letters, Trump wrote in a Friday post to Truth Social that “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS!”
“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,” the president wrote in his post. “Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.”
Trump added that he was directing “EVERY Federal Agency” to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE use of Anthropic’s technology, writing, “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,” he continued in the post. Trump warned the company to “get their act together,” threatening to “use the Full Power of the Presidency” if Anthropic is not “helpful during this phase out period.”
Hegseth posted screenshots of the president’s Truth Social post on X, adding, “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” tagging Anthropic and Dario Amodei, the company’s CEO.
Amodei released a statement on Thursday regarding the company’s “discussions” with the Pentagon, writing, “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.”
To that end, Amodei wrote his company has “worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community.” However, he later said, “AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values,” citing “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons” as the company’s main concerns. The CEO said the company “cannot in good accede” to the DoW’s request, but that they still “remain ready to continue our work to support the national security of the United States.”
Anthropic has a close connection to the Democratic party, including several former Biden-era officials in management positions and substantial funding from Democratic donor Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder. Despite this relationship, Anthropic still sought to deepen its ties with the Trump administration in April 2025, looking to begin providing the military with access to Claude, according to FedScoop.
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