Warner: DOD designating Anthropic a supply chain risk is a death sentence
Senator Mark Warner · Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us · Mar 26, 2026 · at 6:38
U.S. Senator Mark Warner discusses reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is attempting to designate AI lab Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk.
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“Hegsef is going to declare, is trying to declare Anthropik a supply chain risk. That would mean that not only Anthropic couldn't do business with DOD, but any company, and virtually every major company in America does some level of business with DOD, they couldn't do business with Anthropic as well. This would be the ability for a single individual to write a death sentence to major American tech companies, and people need to realize this stuff is happening real time.”
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