The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model, Claude, a first step toward a potential designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," Axios has learned.Why it matters: That penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, such as Chinese tech giant Huawei.Using it to punish a leading American tech firm, particularly one on which the military itself is currently reliant, would be unpreceden...