Pentagon Casts Cloud of Doubt Over Anthropic’s AI Business

Anthropic PBC started this year on a winning streak, with surging sales, multiple viral products and a large funding round all giving the startup a big advantage in the costly global AI race.

On Friday, the Trump administration handed down back-to-back directives that threaten to curb growth for one of the country’s most successful artificial intelligence firms. First, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s software, which has become popular particularly as a programming assistant.