Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic offers Claude to US civilian agencies
Anthropic opened Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies while its dispute with the Pentagon continued over security designations, court rulings and agency access.
- Anthropic started offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies.
- The service had been in open beta since July and ran in a FedRAMP High environment.
- The Pentagon had barred Claude after classifying Anthropic as a supply chain risk in March.
- Anthropic said agencies could use the same features as enterprise customers, with fixed spending caps, department budgets, audit logs, two-person approval for sensitive actions and chats kept on agency devices.
- In late August, a San Francisco judge struck down one designation as unlawful retaliation, and in late September a Washington appeals court upheld the other.
Anthropic started offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The service had been available in open beta since July and operated in a FedRAMP High environment.
The company said non-military agencies were the intended customers because the Pentagon had banned Claude. In March, the Pentagon classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk after the company refused to remove its restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Trump ordered agencies to stop using Claude, but the military still used it during the Iran war before removing it. In late August, a San Francisco judge overturned one of the two designations, saying it was unlawful retaliation.
In late September, a Washington appeals court upheld the other designation. Anthropic said agencies would get the same features as enterprise customers, with capped spending, departmental budgets, audit logs and two-person approval for sensitive actions, and that Dario Amodei’s dinner with Trump on Sunday suggested relations were easing, though not necessarily permanently.
Named in this story
People
- Dario Amodei
- Anthropic’s chief executive who dined with Trump
- Trump
- ordered agencies to drop Claude
Companies
- Anthropic
- offered Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies
Governments and agencies
- US federal and state agencies
- the civilian customers for the new offering
- Pentagon
- banned Claude and named Anthropic a supply chain risk
Products and systems
- Claude for Government
- Anthropic’s government offering for agencies
- Claude
- the AI service the Pentagon banned and agencies could use
How the source tells it
The piece was mostly matter-of-fact, but it framed the dispute as a continuing clash and ended on a note of uncertainty.
- tension a conflict-led headline and repeated references to bans, rulings and a continuing dispute
- uncertainty a speculative closing that said relations might be improving but not necessarily for long