US President Donald Trump speaks during a Working Breakfast with Governors at the White House in Washington, DC on February 20, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) President Donald Trump told the US government Friday to “immediately” stop using Anthropic’s technology after the AI startup rejected the Pentagon’s demand that it agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. Anthropic vowed to sue over the “intimidation” and insists its technology should not be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems. “No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons,” the company said in a statement Friday. The Pentagon counters that it opera...