alt Hacker NewsDario wanted to sell a $200 million chat bot to the US military and also dictate how it could be used. The government said no. And because of that Claude also cannot be deployed to the GenAI.mil AI infrastructure. This means that any sensitive work for the DoD that uses Claude will go through Anthropic's infrastructure, not the US military-hosted backend.
So yes obviously defense contractors are forbidden to use it.
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noahbp • today at 10:25 PM
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/01/claude-codes...
Anthropic did not host the model that the Department of War used. It had, and still has no control over the models it has deployed in classified environments.
If the government wanted to put iPhones in missiles, and apple said "we won't sell you iPhones to put in missiles" would the correct government response be to say "no government contractor can ever use an iPhone".