Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, March 7th.

Today on Forbes, the Anthropic co-founders standing up to Trump.

After a high-profile standoff with the Pentagon, AI giant Anthropic and its CEO, Dario

Amadeh are facing the full weight of President Donald Trump's wrath.

Last week in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, quote,

The left-wing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a disastrous mistake trying to strongarm the

Department of War and force them to obey their terms of service instead of our Constitution.

Anthropic had drawn the ire of the federal government last week, after the company refused

to allow the Department of War unfettered access to its AI model clawed, particularly in what

Anthropic describes as mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Taking the moral high

ground could come at a hefty price.

In response, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegeseth, deem the company a, quote, supply chain risk,

banning any contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the U.S. military to use Anthropic.

In the face of that threat, Amade didn't budge. In a blog post explaining the

decision, Amade wrote, quote, we cannot in good conscience exceed to their request. The next day,

Trump directed every federal agency to immediately cease use of Anthropics technology. Paul Schar,

a former official at the Department of Defense,

where he worked on policies related to autonomous weapons, said, quote,

In this instance, Anthropic has been willing to blow up an important relationship with the government by sticking to their guns. They've been willing to stick to their principles even when there's a

cost to doing so.

And I think that is notable.

Not all companies necessarily do that.

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