
#48 Anthropic and the U.S. Government: When AI Becomes a “Supply-Chain Risk”
Artificial intelligence is increasingly treated not just as software, but as part of critical infrastructure. In early 2026, the U.S. government signaled this shift when Anthropic (developer of the Claude AI models) became the subject of a supply-chain risk debate within federal procurement circles. The episode illustrates how frontier AI companies are now entangled in national security, procurement law, and




