In defiance of the Pentagon’s recent decision to designate Anthropic AI as a supply chain risk, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have announced they will continue to offer Anthropic’s AI technology to their clients, except for defense-related projects.
Cloud Giants Shield Commercial Revenue Amid Pentagon Fallout
CNBC reported that Amazon decided on Friday. Google and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) confirmed it to TechCrunch.
It follows the Pentagon’s formal designation, which requires defense vendors to certify that they are not using Anthropic’s chatbot Claude in Department of Defense work.
The three companies are the leading providers of cloud infrastructure.
Since 2023, Amazon has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, whose Claude AI runs on …
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