White House escalates war against Anthropic with capricious new AI controls

—The White House is intensifying its campaign against Anthropic, the AI safety company, with what the Financial Times called 'capricious' regulatory controls targeting the firm. The Atlantic reported the White House is 'ratcheting up its war' against Anthropic, potentially restricting its operations or government contracts. The escalation comes as Anthropic's Claude competes with OpenAI and other AI providers for lucrative federal contracts and public sector deployments.