On March 3, Reuters reported that the U.S. Department of the Treasury, State Department, and federal housing agencies were completely terminating the use of Anthropic products, with the State Department stating that it would switch to competitor OpenAI’s technology. Previously, U.S. President Trump had ordered government agencies to abandon Anthropic technology, including the Claude chatbot.
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Trump on Friday directed the government to stop cooperation with Anthropic, and the Pentagon announced that it would list the company as a supply chain risk. This struggle over the guardrails of AI technology has dealt a heavy blow to Anthropic. Late Friday, rival OpenAI announced a deal to deploy its technology into classified U.S. Department of Defense networks.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent posted on X on Monday that the Treasury Department will completely terminate the use of Anthropic's products, including Claude.
William Pulte, director of the US Federal Housing Finance Agency, also posted on X that his department and the two major US mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will completely stop using Anthropic products.
The U.S. State Department is switching the underlying model of its internal chatbot StateChat from Anthropic to OpenAI, according to a memo seen by Reuters. "StateChat will now use OpenAI's GPT4.1 model," the memo said, adding that more information will be provided later.
As of press time, the U.S. State Department has not commented.