Microsoft Says It Will Keep Selling Anthropic to Customers Other than the Pentagon

Microsoft Says It Will Keep Selling Anthropic to Customers Other than the Pentagon

By Aaron Holmes
Publication Date: 2026-03-06 14:36:00

Microsoft will keep selling Anthropic models—and other products powered by its models—to most customers after the Pentagon said it was designating Anthropic a supply chain risk, Microsoft said late Thursday. The software-and-cloud giant said its lawyers determined that the Pentagon’s designation only barred Microsoft from including Anthropic products in its contracts with the Pentagon