Anthropic faced pressure from investors and a technology industry group to de-escalate its dispute with the U.S. Defense Department. The Information Technology Industry Council, a coalition including Amazon and Nvidia, expressed concern over the Pentagon threatening to designate the AI company as a supply-chain risk. Venture capital firms Lightspeed and Iconiq contacted the Trump administration to prevent a blanket ban on the startup as its revenue run rate reached $19 billion. The conflict escalated when Anthropic refused to allow the military to use its Claude models for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.
