The White House has reached an agreement with Anthropic, and the NSA will fully integrate Claude AI.

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What was considered a "supply chain risk" just months ago has now become the core of intelligence—Anthropic's Washington turnaround writes the most ironic chapter in the militarization of AI. (Previous coverage: The U.S. Department of Defense signs AI cooperation agreements with the "Magnificent Seven" including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Nvidia; Anthropic is excluded after refusing to compromise under Trump's ban.) (Background: Deep dive into the Anthropic account ban storm: The religion of safety, the AI civil war, and the Claude dilemma amid U.S.-China decoupling.) A few months ago, the U.S. Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a "supply chain risk," even placing it alongside AI services with Chinese backgrounds on military procurement lists. However, a recent report by The New York Times reveals that the White House is finalizing an agreement for the National Security Agency (NSA) and other U.S. intelligence agencies to utilize Claude AI for top-secret analytical work. Simultaneously, the White House has approved a $9 billion procurement project for NVIDIA Grace Blackwell chips to build dedicated AI computing infrastructure for the intelligence community. This agreement marks a major shift in the U.S. government's trust in AI. Previously, intelligence agencies were largely unable to use commercial cloud AI models due to data classification levels and regulatory red lines. Since its inception, Anthropic has championed "Responsible AI" and "Safety First," with co-founder Dario Amodei repeatedly speaking out against the military use of AI. Yet, faced with national security-level pressure and potential multi-billion dollar government contracts, the company once viewed as an "ethical benchmark" has ultimately chosen to cross the red line. Notably, top U.S. AI labs hold vastly different attitudes toward military cooperation. In early 2024, OpenAI quietly revised its usage policy, removing the phrase "prohibiting military and warfare use" and replacing it with the vague expression "complying with international law," followed by reports of project collaborations with the Pentagon. Despite strong internal employee backlash, Google DeepMind continues to participate in U.S. military medical diagnosis and logistics optimization programs. Anthropic was previously the most hawkish, even refusing to develop model features that could be used for surveillance, but this agreement effectively signals the total collapse of its "ethical firewall." A deeper structural push comes from the hardware level. The $9 billion NVIDIA chip order approved by the White House will largely flow into newly built "intelligence-dedicated AI data centers." These chips utilize the latest Grace Blackwell architecture, designed specifically for large-scale inference and training, clearly intended to run massive models on the scale of Claude. The manufacturing and packaging of these chips are inseparable from the critical role of the Taiwan semiconductor supply chain. TSMC's advanced packaging and CoWoS capacity are the lifeblood of NVIDIA's flagship chip mass production; Taiwan is no longer a bystander in the AI arms race, but a fundamental technical cornerstone. This agreement has also sparked intense debate within the U.S. regarding security red lines. Privacy advocacy groups point out that once the NSA gains access to the most advanced AI, its capabilities for mass surveillance and data analysis will be upgraded, potentially infringing on civil rights. Meanwhile, some members of Congress worry that if Anthropic's AI models exhibit bias or are infiltrated by adversaries, the entire intelligence system will be exposed to systemic risk. Ironically, the very units that labeled Anthropic a risk months ago are now leading the charge in embracing the system. For Taiwan, this news is more than just a distant geopolitical development. On one hand, Taiwan's semiconductor industry indirectly supports the hardware foundation of this intelligence program; on the other hand, as the U.S. intelligence community fully integrates AI, its ability to predict and analyze the movements of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will significantly improve, and an "AI asymmetric advantage" in regional security is taking shape.

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