What TikTok and Huawei Can Teach Anthropic: Catherine Thorbecke (1)

The Pentagon formally notified Anthropic PBC last week that its products have been deemed a supply-chain risk, marking the first time Washington has publicly placed that label on an American company.

But if it sounds like a death knell, it isn’t. Such attacks are usually reserved for Chinese tech, meaning there’s now a pattern for how these things play out: Usually with a lot of noise and remarkably little lasting damage.

Let’s start with TikTok. Washington spent more than half a decade targeting the platform under the banner of national-security risks. The short-form video app initially faced the threat of a ban during ...