President Trump said Friday that he has directed all federal agencies to “immediately cease” working with Anthropic – and blasted the company’s leadership as “leftwing nut jobs.”

One of President Trump’s former senior artificial intelligence advisers is sharply criticizing the Defense Department’s ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic. In a post on social media platform X, Dean Ball said companies like Nvidia,

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.

Credit: Getty / Andrew Harnik President Donald Trump ordered every U.S. federal agency to stop using technology from AI company Anthropic on Friday, February 27, posting the directive to Truth Social at 3:47 PM ET — more than an hour before the Pentagon's own 5:01 PM ET deadline for Anthropic to comply with its demands.

President Trump said he will give federal agencies six months to phase out their use of Anthropic's AI products.

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The actions mark an extraordinary rebuke against one of the premier companies that has kept the US in the lead on national security-critical AI.

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon also would designate the San Francisco-based startup a supply-chain risk for national security.

President Trump said he has told tech companies they’ll need to build their own power plants to support artificial intelligence development – a move that comes as he looks to ease energy costs for