The Trump administration has drawn up strict rules for civilian artificial-intelligence contracts that would require companies to allow “any lawful” use of their models, the Financial Times reported on Friday, as a dispute escalates between the Pentagon and AI firm Anthropic. ADVERTISEMENTThis comes just a day after the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" on Thursday. The designation bars government contractors from using the AI firm's technology in work for the US military. The stand-off between the Trump administration and Anthropic comes amid a months-long dispute over the company's insistence on safeguards that the Defense Department says went too far. The GSA draft mandates that contractors "must not intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments into the AI systems’ data outputs," the FT reported.

Source: The Telegraph March 07, 2026 04:16 UTC