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Anthropic’s Pentagon Ban Threat Hits Legal and Vendor Limits
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Hegseth’s supply-chain-risk move against Anthropic looks less like an instant industry-wide ban than a narrower procurement fight, while the Pentagon spreads classified AI work across rival vendors and Washington weighs voluntary frontier-model vetting.
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