The blacklist is now a fact on the ground, not just a statement: DOD says 90% of classified AI workloads are already off Anthropic, rest done by October

2026-09-11 · part of DAWG Rising

What happened

Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael told reporters at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference on 2026-09-11 that the Pentagon is close to completely migrating all classified military AI systems away from Anthropic models: "I'd say about 90% has transitioned. All of the Maven Smart Systems or Palantir work has been transitioned months ago, and we're on track to get it done by the end of the month." This is a concrete operational follow-through on the 09-03 entry below (Michael's public statement that Anthropic "is still a designated Supply Chain Risk"), naming the replacement vendor set for the first time: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, AWS and Oracle. Michael framed the multi-vendor shift as a lesson independent of the Anthropic dispute itself — "one of the mistakes... is the fact that the Pentagon was solely reliant on one model" — while confirming the two sides are still litigating the underlying designation in court. (DefenseScoop)

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