‘Woke’ AI feud escalates between Pentagon and Anthropic

February 17, 2026

Wall Street Journal: A senior defense official said on Tuesday that many at the Pentagon increasingly view Anthropic as a supply-chain risk and might ask contractors and vendors to certify that they don’t use the company’s Claude models. Because that designation is typically used for foreign adversaries, the move would mark an unusual rebuke of a U.S. company…