New Delhi, March 11 -- Late last month, the US Department of War labelled Anthropic, creator of the artificial intelligence (AI) system Claude, "a supply chain risk," and began taking steps to remove it from all use in the department, including by contractors and subcontractors to its roughly $1 trillion annual spending.

There are news reports that no company that does work with the Pentagon will be allowed to engage in "commercial activity" with Anthropic. President Donald Trump called Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" that he "fired. like dogs."

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and leading system in the AI race, swooped in within a day. It is Anthropic's main rival and both companies are far ahead of challengers like Alphabet, De...