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        "msgid": "designer-of-advanced-us-weapons-calls-donald-trump-a-dictator-1772809212",
        "date": "2026-03-06 20:40:00",
        "title": "Designer of Advanced US Weapons Calls Donald Trump a Dictator",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei denounces Donald Trump after its Claude AI is labelled a 'supply chain risk' by the U.S. Department of Defence, barring use by government contractors. He asserts the decision is political rather than technical, pointing to donations to Trump\u2019s campaign. The dispute has reverberated across the tech sector, with open backlash from industry peers and a surge in competitor Claude\u2019s downloads as OpenAI\u2019s tie with the DoD comes under scrutiny.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has criticised\nU.S. President Donald Trump after his AI product was given a label of\n\u2018supply chain risk\u2019, restricting Claude, Anthropic\u2019s AI, from use by\ncompanies holding contracts with the U.S. government. In an internal\nmemo cited by The Information, Amodei alleged that the U.S. Department\nof Defence blocked the company because it did not donate to Trump\u2019s\ncampaign. \u2018The real reason the Department of Defence and the Trump\nadministration do not like us is that we did not donate to Trump. We do\nnot praise Trump as a dictator, while Sam does,\u2019 Amodei said. Sam Altman\nis the CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic\u2019s main AI rival, famous for its ChatGPT\nchatbot. OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon as an AI technology\nprovider after Anthropic was ousted. OpenAI president Greg Brockman is\nreported to have donated US$25 million to Trump-supporting campaign\nfunds, while Altman gave US$1 million to the Trump inauguration fund in\n2024. The dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon was reportedly\ntriggered by Claude\u2019s use in the U.S. military\u2019s attack on Venezuela.\nAnthropic forbids the use of its AI to support autonomous weapons\noperations or to spy on U.S. citizens, and Altman is said to have\nexploited the situation to offer OpenAI to the Department of Defence.\nHowever, Altman\u2019s move angered many OpenAI users and sparked a campaign\nto uninstall ChatGPT from mobile devices. Sensor Tower data show that\nthe volume of mobile ChatGPT uninstalls nearly quadrupled on Saturday,\n28 February 2026. The spike occurred shortly after OpenAI announced a\ndeal with the U.S. Department of Defence, which is now named the\nDepartment of War. The 295 per cent surge far exceeded the average\nChatGPT uninstall rate of just 9 per cent in the last 30 days.\nMeanwhile, the number of downloads for Anthropic\u2019s Claude, a rival to\nChatGPT, rose 37 per cent on Friday and jumped 51 per cent on Saturday.\nUnlike OpenAI, Anthropic announced that they no longer work with the\nU.S. Department of Defence. The decision by Trump and U.S. Secretary of\nDefence Pete Hegseth to label Anthropic a supply chain risk was also\nprotested by other U.S. tech giants. The status had previously been\ngranted only to companies affiliated with an \u2018enemy\u2019 of the U.S. A\ntechnology trade association whose members include Nvidia, Amazon, and\nApple sent an open letter to Hegseth, expressing concern that the\nDefence Department is issuing a supply chain risk label merely due to\nprocurement disputes. \u2018The label could prevent the government from\naccessing the best products and services from U.S. companies that have\nworked with various federal agencies,\u2019 the letter stated.<\/p>",
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