Senate’s Wyden Pledges Battle Over Pentagon Ban on Anthropic (1)

Congressional Democrats are vowing to contest the Trump administration’s unprecedented actions against the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC, which include a prohibition on all use in the federal government and by Pentagon contractors.

Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vowed to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after Anthropic was barred by President Donald Trump from all government business, and said he plans to seek bipartisan backing for legislation to address the issue.

Anthropic has said AI models were not yet reliable enough for autonomous weapons systems and also objected to ...