Top Pentagon Official Reaffirms Anthropic Blacklist

Pentagon official Emil Michael said Thursday that Anthropic remains a 'supply chain risk,' contradicting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's statement that the company is 'back on the right side.' The disagreement highlights a lack of alignment within the Trump administration over the AI lab's military use.

“Pentagon official Emil Michael on Thursday said that Anthropic is still considered a ‘supply chain risk,’ a day after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the company is ‘back on the right side,'” Axios https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/pentagon-reaffirms-anthropic-blacklist reports. “The Trump administration is not entirely aligned on one of the world’s leading AI labs following months of fighting over how the military can use its models.”