Microsoft says it will keep Anthropic's AI tools embedded in its client products, after its lawyers concluded the DOD's designation is only for defense projects
Something is a supply chain risk _because_ it is crucial to ongoing operations but foreseeably subject to an external veto. Did none of you read the law? ...OK admittedly it's one of the most opaquely phrased laws I've ever seen. But it does explain this!
Anthropic has confirmed what I'd have guessed: the DoW's supply chain risk designation is profoundly narrower than Secretary Hegseth threatened last week. It applies only to DoW contractors in their direct fulfillment of the military contract, as opposed to requiring contractors…
Pause to reflect that the Trump Admin has officially taken the harshest regulatory action against a frontier AI company of any U.S. government entity (Colorado's SB 205 is harsher but not in effect), and that Claude is now more strictly regulated by USG than any Chinese AI.