AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Scoop: White House readies executive order to weed out Anthropic
The White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing the federal government to rip out Anthropic's AI from its operations, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The move would escalate the administration's fight with Anthropic , which is already suing the Pentagon over its supply chain risk designation. - It would also formalize a broader push across agencies to remove Claude after President Trump said his administration would not use "woke" AI. State of play: Government agencies like the Treasury Department have already begun to offboard Anthropic . - Anthropic in a lawsuit on Monday said Congress in its procurement laws did not give the administration the authority to blacklist a U.S. company…