Brookings Fellow: Pentagon's 'Woke AI' Designation of Anthropic Removes Key Competitor from Federal AI Market

Brookings Fellow Valerie Wirtschafter analyzes the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk and its forced renegotiation with the Pentagon, noting Claude was the only frontier model in DOD classified systems and was reportedly used in the Venezuela and Iran operations — a development that could benefit remaining federal AI providers like Palantir.