{"id":678,"date":"2026-03-10T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:14:58","slug":"anthropic-and-the-pentagon-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic and the Pentagon Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was just last week that I posted a brief write-up about the situation with Anthropic and the Department of Defense.  At the time, it seemed like the worst thing that might happen to Anthropic was a loss of military contracts, but things have escalated.  The Pentagon and the Trump administration have ordered the discontinuation of Anthropic products by government agencies and contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is highly unusual and an extremely aggressive move.   Anthropic has received a groundswell of public support, and OpenAI has been getting a lot of criticism for stepping in and signing a major contract as soon as Anthropic was excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why the Pentagon is at War with Anthropic\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JCPQRkr9cR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just last week that I posted a brief write-up about the situation with Anthropic and the Department of Defense. At the time, it seemed like the worst thing that might happen to Anthropic was a loss of military &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,3,2,32],"tags":[116,125,173,25,172,152,36,156],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-bad-science","category-politics","category-risk-management","category-third-party-risk","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-claud","tag-ethics","tag-iran","tag-pentagon","tag-third-party-risk","tag-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}