Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backs U.S. government in dispute with Anthropic

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sided with the U.S. government in a dispute between U.S. AI company Anthropic and the Department of Defense.
 
According to Yonhap, Huang said at the Milken Global Conference 2026 economic and finance forum held Sunday afternoon local time at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles that he “fully believes the government will use technology in the right way.”
 
He praised Anthropic as “an amazing company with a great culture and a deeply rooted belief system,” but added, “I don’t agree with all of their positions.”
 
Huang said his view is that if the U.S. government decides to use technology to protect the country and families, and that use is legal and for national security, “I would hope they wouldn’t ask me whether they can use that technology in wartime.”
 
Noting that “a CEO is not an elected official,” he said people who disagree can vote or protest as citizens, but he would not “stand in the way when the country is trying to protect our families.”
 
Anthropic has provided its AI model, Claude, to U.S. military classified systems. But it has clashed with the Pentagon by saying its model should not be used for large-scale surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons.
 
The Defense Department, in a rare move involving a U.S. company, designated Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump have also sharply criticized Anthropic.