Trump blacklists Anthropic in AI battle
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump says he will direct every federal agency to immediately stop using technology from AI developer Anthropic. The company behind the AI assistant Claude is mired in a row with the White House after refusing demands to give the US military unfettered access to its AI tools. Anthropic says “no amount of intimidation or punishment” will shift its opposition to its technology being used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, and says it will challenge the White House decision in court.
Also: the former US President, Bill Clinton, tells a Congressional committee he did nothing wrong during his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump says he's "not happy" with the outcome of the third round of nuclear negotiations with Iran, but the Omani mediator says "peace is within reach" and calls for more time to be given to diplomatic efforts. We look back at the career of the American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who has died aged 86. Argentina's president Javier Milei tries to scrap laws protecting glaciers from the mining industry, promising the changes will lead to one million new jobs. And why the English Premier League is to launch its first direct-to-customer streaming platform next season.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday the 28th of February. |
| 0:17.3 | President Trump orders US government agencies to stop doing business with Anthropic |
| 0:22.2 | after the firm said it won't allow its AI model to be used for mass domestic surveillance |
| 0:26.9 | or making fully autonomous weapons. |
| 0:30.1 | The former US President Bill Clinton tells a congressional committee he did nothing wrong |
| 0:34.5 | during his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:37.1 | And the American |
| 0:37.6 | singer-songwriter, Neil Siddaka, has died aged 86. I wrote a song, a rock and roll song called |
| 0:43.9 | Mr. Moon. I played it in the school auditorium. The response from the kids was phenomenal. I |
| 0:50.9 | realized then I liked the attention. Also in the podcast, Argentina's president |
| 0:58.0 | Javier Millet tries to scrap laws protecting glaciers from the mining industry. And the English |
| 1:03.4 | Premier League is to launch its first direct-to-customer streaming platform next season. |
| 1:11.4 | Should there be restrictions on how artificial intelligence is deployed on the battlefield? |
| 1:17.0 | President Trump wants the US military to have the freedom to do what it likes with the technology. |
| 1:22.2 | Anthropic, the US firm whose clawed AI assistant was reportedly used in the Venezuela raid last month, thinks |
| 1:29.0 | there should be some red lines. It's refused to bow down to the Pentagon's demand that it |
| 1:33.9 | lift all its restrictions. And so the US president has now ordered the government to stop |
| 1:39.0 | doing business with the firm. Our North America Technology correspondent Jamali, told me how the row unfolded. |
| 1:46.0 | What we heard on Tuesday was that Dario Amodi, the CEO of Anthropic, and Pete Hegeseth, |
| 1:52.4 | the Secretary of Defense, now the Secretary of War, met and that during that meeting, |
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