Defense Prime's AI Push Fails: Drops Copilot, Anthropic Hits Blacklist
SimonOlsn · x · 2026-08-04
A defense prime purchased 3,000 Microsoft Copilot seats and tied employee bonuses to AI usage, but the program died in six months. They subsequently switched to Anthropic, only to find Claude on the government blacklist, forcing them to rip up that plan too.
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