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· Jackson Eippert

Anthropic Officially Declared Supply Chain Risk by DOW

Dario Amodei confirmed that Anthropic has been officially designated a supply chain risk by the Department of War, but the scope is narrower than initially feared — DOW contractors can't use Claude on defense programs, but Anthropic's broader commercial relationships remain intact.

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New Model Alert: GPT-5.4

OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a dedicated reasoning model that splits from the unified thinking-and-instant approach. Early reviews praise a significant capability jump, though API costs are up and frontend design lags behind Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.