Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?

6 pointsPoomba24d ago3 comments

Now that Trump/the administration has designater Anthropic a supply chainrisk and threatened every company that uses them, how do u think most companies that use Anthropic/Claude would respond?

Anthropic only has ~100 customers in federally focused industries (ie defense) [1] but it seems Trump is not just targeting “pure” federal contractors/agencies but anyone doing business with the govt. so that obviously includes a huge chunk of tech companies like Crowdstrike, Asana, Salesforce, Hubspot etc [2] and even non-tech companies

And how is the govt going to enforce companies to not use Anthropic? Are they going to audit the internal tool usage of thousands of companies?

What if individual developers pay for Claude Code personally? What if a company uses Azure or AWS Bedrock which routes to Claude? How would they handle those “edge cases”?

[1] According to Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com/data/anthropic-claude/) [2] many of these tech companies sell separate products to the government (https://www.hubspot.com/government and https://www.salesforce.com/government/)

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chrisjj24d ago

> How will most Anthropic customers respond to the supply chain risk?

"What supply chain risk?"

PoombaOP24d ago

I guess to be explicit, how will they respond to the threat of it being designated a supply chain risk(edited title)

sky222424d ago

What are the numbers on companies indirectly use Claude via Github Copilot? Given that OpenAI and by extension, Microsoft, has folded to the will of the US Govt, I suspect that all Claude models have a pretty non-zero chance of being pulled from Copilot very soon.

I know many companies using Copilot have no contract work with the government, but this is the Trump admin we're talking about. They want to send a message.

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