He also threatened to put the AI company on what could amount to a government blacklist. At issue is the guardrails Anthropic placed on its AI model Claude. The supply chain risk designation would prohibit companies with military contracts from using Anthropic’s products in any of their military work. “I would assume we don’t want to utilize the technology that is the supply chain risk, right? “What it sounds like is that the supply chain risk may not be a legitimate claim, but more punitive because they’re not acquiescing.”

Source: CNN February 24, 2026 20:02 UTC