"Caught in the middle is Palantir. The defense contractor provides the secure cloud infrastructure that allows the military to use Anthropic's Claude model, but it has stayed quiet as tensions escalate. That's even as the Pentagon, , threatens to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk," a move that could force Palantir to cut ties with one of its most important AI partners."
""That would just mean that the vast majority of companies that now use [Claude] in order to make themselves more effective would all of a sudden be ineligible for working for the government," says Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee who is now running for Congress in New York's 12th district. "It would be horribly hamstringing our government's ability to get things done.""
Anthropic seeks limits on two applications of its Claude AI—mass surveillance and autonomous weapons—while the Department of War demands freedom to use the technology without those restrictions. Palantir provides the secure cloud infrastructure that enables military access to Claude and faces pressure as the Pentagon threatens to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk," potentially forcing Palantir to sever ties. Such a designation could bar Anthropic and its customers from government work and hinder government operations. Claude was deployed on classified networks, Anthropic received a $200 million defense contract, and the technology was used in a recent operation to capture Nicolas Maduro.
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