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Anthropic, an AI company, is facing criticism from the Trump administration over its restrictions on the use of its AI models, specifically Claude, for law enforcement surveillance. These restrictions have frustrated federal contractors working with agencies such as the FBI and Secret Service, who have encountered obstacles in utilizing Claude for surveillance tasks. Anthropic’s policies prohibit domestic surveillance applications, which some officials believe are selectively enforced. Despite providing services to national security customers and working with the Department of Defense, Anthropic maintains its policy against using its models for weapons development. This tension comes as OpenAI announced a competing agreement to provide ChatGPT Enterprise access to federal executive branch workers.