{
  "id": 12187392,
  "title": "Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/pentagon-stops-using-anthropic-ai-tools-months-after-blacklisting-12187392",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-05T16:13:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BBC Technology",
    "slug": "bbc-technology",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5j9x9pr0240o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The United States Department of Defence has ceased using Anthropic's AI tools, months after the company was labeled a supply chain risk on national security grounds. This decision was announced by a Pentagon official to the BBC. Initially, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had designated Anthropic as a national security risk in February and announced the disuse of its products by late August. However, sources familiar with the situation revealed that as recently as last week, Anthropic's Claude model was still being utilized by the department for research, analysis, intelligence gathering, and military operations against Iran. The tool was considered essential for handling large amounts of data, particularly through the Pentagon's Maven Smart System, a data platform operated by Palantir. Despite the Pentagon's official cessation of Anthropic's tools, their usage remained widely reported until recently, suggesting a complex integration that may have been difficult to remove abruptly.",
  "summary": "It labelled the company a \"supply chain risk\" earlier this year, but multiple sources said Anthropic's Claude model was recently widely used.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "Anthropic admits to investors that the US govt is a 'problem': What the company said",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/anthropic-admits-to-investors-that-the-us-govt-is-a-problem-what-the",
        "published": "2026-10-05T13:33:52.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BBC Business",
        "title": "Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/pentagon-stops-using-anthropic-ai-tools-months-after-blacklisting",
        "published": "2026-10-05T16:13:21.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}