Pentagon Moving to Replace Anthropic Amid AI Feud, Official Says

March 17, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

The Pentagon is working to develop alternatives to Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence tools, according to a senior US defense official, following a Trump administration decision to declare the company a supply-chain risk in a feud over safeguards governing military use of the technology.

Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, said that it would take more than a month to start transitioning from the Anthropic products currently being used in US military operations in Iran but that efforts are under way to install a different large-language model.

“The Department is actively pursuing multiple LLMs into the appropriate ...

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