WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee released the following statement after the Department of Defense (DOD) stated that it intends to terminate its contract with Anthropic and label the company a "supply-chain risk," as direct retaliation to Anthropic maintaining its requests for safeguards against DOD's use of Anthropic's AI model for mass surveillance and autonomous-weapons deployment.
"The Trump administration's decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk is a reckless and unprecedented attempt to destroy an American AI company. This is not a routine classification - it is an attempt to cripp...