EXCLUSIVE-Big Tech group tells Pentagon's Hegseth they are 'concerned' about declaring Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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EXCLUSIVE-Big Tech group tells Pentagon's Hegseth they are 'concerned' about declaring Anthropic a supply-chain risk

By Karen Freifeld

March 4 (Reuters) - A Big Tech industry group on Wednesday expressed concern to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth about his declaring AI company Anthropic a supply-chain risk, saying it creates uncertainty for companies that could threaten the military's access to the best products and services.

"We are concerned by recent reports regarding the Department of War’s consideration of imposing a supply chain risk designation in response to a procurement dispute," the Information Technology Industry Council, whose members include Nvidia NVDA.O, Amazon.com AMZN.O and Apple AAPL.O, said in a letter dated Wednesday that did not directly name Anthropic.

Last week, capping off a heated weeks-long dispute with Anthropic over technology guardrails on Claude tools used by the military, President Donald Trump announced a federal agency-wide ban on the company with a six-month phaseout period and Hegseth ordered Pentagon suppliers to purge Anthropic's prized AI tools from their supply chains.

The letter, sent to Hegseth on Wednesday, also stated that the declaration threatens "to undermine the government’s access to the best-in-class products and services from American companies that serve all agencies and components of the federal government."

(Reporting by Karen Freifeld in New York; Editing by Chris Sanders and Matthew Lewis)

((karen.freifeld@thomsonreuters.com; +1(646) 223-6921;))

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