Summary
President Trump ordered a blacklist of Anthropic from all U.S. government work, affecting federal agencies using or planning to use Claude, Anthropic's AI. This decision could disrupt AI projects across various federal departments.
Key Facts
- President Trump ordered Anthropic to be blacklisted from federal government work.
- Claude, an AI by Anthropic, is in use or planned use at several U.S. agencies.
- The Department of Health and Human Services uses Claude for secure queries.
- The Office of Personnel Management is piloting Claude, as noted in its AI inventory.
- The Department of Energy uses Claude at major laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- NASA used Claude for an AI-planned drive on Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- A federal agreement last year made Claude broadly available to the government.
