DOD says Anthropic’s ‘red lines’ make it an ‘unacceptable risk to national security’

TechCrunch | 18.03.2026 20:40
The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply chain risk. As part of its complaints, Anthropic had requested the court temporarily block the DOD from enforcing its label.