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Breaking news, Anthropic blacklisted. President Trump moments ago pulling the plug on the government's use of Anthropic AI technology as we are now crossing tonight's 5 p.m. deadline for a deal. At issue, the Department of Defense demand that Anthropic allow full use of its AI technology without guardrails, something Anthropic has refused to do,

even at the risk of losing its military contract valued at some $200 million. President Trump posting on Truth Social just moments ago directing federal agencies who immediately cease all use of Anthropics technology, writing, quote, there will be a six-month phase-out period for agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropics products at various levels.

Anthropics better get their act together, he writes, and be helpful during this phase-out period, or I will use the full power of the presidency to make them comply, unquote. Nothing is really over until Donald Trump says it is. And on one level, he really closed the door. He said that, Anthropics, it's time for you to go.

You have six months to leave town. You're off the federal government payroll. You are out of the federal government's networks. And yet we have seen Trump reverse course in a number of other things in the past. And if Anthropic is in some way willing to capitulate to meet the Pentagon's demands or satisfy whatever additional concerns that Trump may be raising on his own,

this is the first time we have heard him weigh in on this dispute, Joe. We could see perhaps yet another reversal. But right now, it's a pretty final word from the president.