9 October 2026
Pentagon drops Anthropic; Microsoft suspended from visa program
First reported
CNBC and Transformer ran this on , 2 days before the next source picked it up.
- The Pentagon confirmed it has stopped using models made by Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot.
- The US government suspended Microsoft from the PERM visa program, which lets companies hire foreign workers, over alleged abuse.
- Trump gave Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a medal the same day the visa suspension was reported.
Our read
Only 1 of 30 newsletters covered this story, Transformer, though CNBC and The Decoder also reported it. It follows the Pentagon's Anthropic decisions we have tracked since August 28, 2026, when a federal judge overturned the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic.
Earlier on this story
Written by Newskeryx from which newsletters covered this story and from our own archive.
How it was covered
TransformerShakeel Hashim
Pentagon's end of Anthropic model use, Microsoft's PERM suspension, and Trump's awards to tech executives
Reported by The Decoder, CNBC