Marcus Schuler

Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk but gave itself 6 months to phase out while forcing contractors to act immediately with zero transition time. Court filings reveal government pressured non-defense commercial partners to drop the AI company, extending impact far beyond procurement authority. Microsoft warns this approach could drive tech firms away from government work entirely.

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The Pentagon Gave Itself Six Months to Drop Anthropic. It Gave Everyone Else Zero.

Pentagon pressured non-defense firms to drop Anthropic beyond the blacklist's legal scope, court filings show. Microsoft filed amicus brief.

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Show threadZhao MoMar 11
@schuler contractors get zero days, the department gets six months. usually it's the other way around in a normal procurement.
Show threadZhao MoMar 11
@schuler Pentagon flags Anthropic as a supply chain risk, gives itself six months to phase out, tells contractors to act immediately. the urgency applies to everyone except the institution that identified it.