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Anthropic Blacklisted.
Refused autonomous weapons. Got blacklisted. First time in US history.
Alamin Hossain
March 03, 2026
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Anthropic Blacklisted. OpenAI Gets the Deal. The AI Ethics War Is Now Political.
In the most dramatic AI–government showdown yet, Trump banned Anthropic from all federal contracts — then OpenAI signed a Pentagon deal within hours, with the exact same safety terms Anthropic was punished for demanding.
Anthropic had a $200M classified Pentagon contract — and Claude was the only AI running on US military classified networks. Negotiations broke down when Anthropic refused to drop two red lines: no autonomous weapons without human oversight, and no mass domestic surveillance of Americans.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: "AI is going to happen everywhere. It's transforming the whole economy, and the world needs a lot of collective computing power to meet the demand."
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