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Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic, BBC reports

A Pentagon official told the BBC on Monday that the department has stopped using Anthropic products. People familiar with the department's operations said Claude remained in use as recently as last week, after the earlier August deadline.

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The department statement does not explain the delay. Anthropic declined to comment on it. The BBC report does not establish which replacement tools now handle each task, or whether those tools perform as well.

Watch for details of the replacement systems and how the military tests them before operational use.

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