Anthropic Officially, Arbitrarily and Capriciously Designated a Supply Chain Risk

Make no mistake about what is happening. The Department of War (DoW) demanded Anthropic bend the knee, and give them ‘unfettered access’ to Claude, without understanding what that even meant. If they didn’t get what they want, they threatened to both use the Defense Production Act (DPA) to make Anthropic give the military this vital product, and also designate the company a supply chain risk (SCR). Hegseth sent out an absurdly broad SCR announcement on Twitter that had absolutely no legal basis, that if implemented as written would have been corporate murder.