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March 6, 2026
Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
Cloud vendors are letting customers know that Anthropic's popular AI tools can still be accessed after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company.
TL;DR
- Google and Amazon will continue offering Anthropic's AI technology, similar to Microsoft's earlier announcement.
- The availability of Anthropic's AI is restricted, excluding all defense work, following a Pentagon designation.
- The Department of Defense designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, leading to a six-month wind-down of its work with the company.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei plans to challenge the supply chain risk designation in court.
- Anthropic uses Google Cloud's AI infrastructure for training and has expanded its partnership for access to Google's custom TPUs.
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