Anthropic says its dispute with the Department of War centers on two requested exceptions: mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. The company also says any formal designation should not affect commercial customers or non-DoW work.
OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduced DraftNEPABench, a benchmark for permitting work that uses coding agents on document-heavy NEPA tasks. In tests across 18 federal agencies, experts found the system could save 1 to 5 hours per subsection, or roughly 15% of drafting time.
The US Treasury Department announced it will terminate all use of Anthropic AI products following Trump's executive order designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk after the company refused military surveillance assistance.
After the Trump administration ordered federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic AI and the Pentagon designated Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk', Anthropic announced it will fight the designation in court. Meanwhile, OpenAI struck a deal with the Pentagon.
OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduced DraftNEPABench to evaluate AI coding agents on NEPA drafting tasks. In expert assessments, agents showed potential to reduce drafting time by 1 to 5 hours per subsection, or up to roughly 15%.
Anthropic announced Claude for Government on January 23, 2026, a model offering tailored for U.S. national security operations. The company says deployment includes policy and safety testing aligned to classified-environment realities, plus procurement pathways through Palantir FedStart and AWS Marketplace.