After Amodei refused the Pentagon’s demand for unrestricted use of Claude, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to wind down their use of the chatbot within six months, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” Worker groups representing 700,000 employees across Amazon, Google and Microsoft last week issued a joint statement urging their employers “to also refuse to comply should they or the frontier labs they invest in enter into further contracts with the Pentagon.” A separate open letter signed by roughly 950 Google and OpenAI employees called on their employers to “put aside their differences and stand together” in resisting the agency’s demands. Over the weekend, large numbers of users switched from ChatGPT to Claude, pushing Anthropic’s app to the top of the U.S. App Store’s free app rankings ahead of ChatGPT.
Author: Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Published at: 2026-03-03 23:15:56
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