Monday, October 5, 2026
Pentagon tells BBC it has stopped using Anthropic tools
A US defense official told the BBC on Oct. 5, 2026 that the Pentagon has ceased the use of Anthropic products, after Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the company a supply-chain risk in February and set a late-August phaseout. The BBC said Anthropic declined to comment, and unnamed sources claimed Claude was still used as recently as last week, including through Palantir's Maven Smart System. No defense.gov posting of the Monday statement was found; that confirmation is reported through the BBC.
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