Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering, wrote on X Thursday that Anthropic “is still a designated Supply Chain Risk” at the Defense Department and across the defense industrial base. His post landed a day after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg Television that Anthropic had “gotten religion” and patched things up with the administration. Michael said nothing about the court fight, though a San Francisco federal judge ruled for Anthropic last week, directing the government to end the ban. The designation grew out of a separate dispute over guardrails Anthropic wanted on military use of its models, and Michael has said the Pentagon intends to buy its AI elsewhere.
