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 While the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or an even lower $499 for college students, Apple has insisted that it did not make any design compromises.
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A Pentagon ban of Anthropic's technology shone a spotlight on the company, earning public goodwill and capping a stellar few months for its Claude chatbot.
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"The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You're just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don't."
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In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has admitted that it received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn't "believe this action is legally sound," and that his company sees "no choice" but to challenge it in court. Hours before Amodei published the post, the Pentagon announced that it notified the company that its "products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately."
If you'll recall, the Defense Department (called the Department of War under the current administration) threatened to give the company the designation typically reserved for firms from adversaries like China if it didn't agree to remove its safeguards over mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. President Trump then ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's tech.
Amodei explained that the designation has a narrow scope, because it only exists to protect the government. That is why the general public, and even Defense Department contractors, can still use Anthropic's Claude chatbot and its AI technologies. Microsoft told
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