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title: "The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-us-blacklisted-anthropic-as-a-security-threat-its-spy-agencies-are-using-claude-anyway--rwnghhnqv
source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/us-government-chip-shortage-anthropic-nsa-9-billion
type: article
source: "The Next Web"
published: 2026-05-24T16:17:53.373Z
updated: 2026-05-24T16:18:16.190Z
tags: ["nvidia", "claude", "anthropic", "ai-governance"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.

**[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat due to concerns about its corporate structure and foreign investment ties. Despite this, the NSA continues using Claude because a critical shortage of advanced chips prevents spy agencies from running alternative frontier AI models on classified networks. The White House approved a secret $9 billion emergency funding request to build specialized federal data centres powered by Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips, with $800 million redirected immediately from other budgets. The contradiction highlights a structural tension in US AI policy: frontier AI capability is concentrated in a few private companies, and when hardware to run alternatives doesn't exist, the government loses leverage over its own supply chain. Anthropic's revenue surged from $9B to $30B annualised in early 2026, and the company is preparing for a potential IPO at an $800B valuation.

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**@stanrud** · 0 upvotes

> The phrase “a secret $9 billion emergency funding“ made me lose faith in humanity. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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