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What TikTok and Huawei can teach Anthropic

Washington will eventually decide it can’t afford to sideline one of its best AI firms.

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Anthropic is not Huawei or TikTok. The firm is American and has worked with the US government.

Anthropic is not Huawei or TikTok. The firm is American and has worked with the US government.

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Catherine Thorbecke

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The Pentagon formally notified Anthropic last week that its products have been deemed

a supply chain risk

, marking the first time Washington has publicly placed that label on

an American company

.

But if it sounds like a death knell, it isn’t.

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