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Anthropic MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-08-27
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Military Audit: Anthropic

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified of a contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, purchase order, or deployment record between Anthropic and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police, Border Police, Israel Prison Service, or another Israeli state-security body. 1234567

In March 2026, Anthropic made CloudZone - part of Israeli Matrix IT - an authorized Claude reseller through Amazon Bedrock, with locally provided procurement, consolidated billing, implementation, and support for enterprise and regulated-sector customers. 8910

Matrix IT’s 2025 annual report identifies CloudZone as a group unit marketing cloud solutions in Israel and Europe and names Anthropic among its cloud partners. 10

The same annual report identifies the IDF and IMOD as longstanding Matrix customers and describes Matrix Defense as supplying AI, cyber, engineering, command-and-control, intelligence, and operational-system services to them. 10

No public evidence identified of an IDF, IMOD, police, or prison-service purchase of Claude through CloudZone, or of a Claude deployment within a Matrix Defense project. 8910

Anthropic was not identified in the current SIBAT Defense and HLS Directory or the searched Israeli defence-exhibition material, while Matrix Defense appeared in SIBAT’s 2018–19 directory. 10116

Anthropic’s November 2024 agreement with Palantir and AWS expressly concerned access to Claude for U.S. intelligence and defence agencies, without extending that agreement to Palantir’s Israeli customers. 12

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

CloudZone publicly presents Claude on Amazon Bedrock as a general-purpose enterprise AI service for product, operational, support, and internal-workflow uses, and its materials do not identify an Israeli tactical or military Claude variant. 89

Anthropic introduced Claude Gov in June 2025 as a differentiated national-security product built from government-customer feedback, designed to handle classified material with fewer refusals, and optimized for intelligence, defence-language, and cybersecurity analysis. 13

Anthropic states that Claude Gov is available only to U.S. national-security customers. 13

Anthropic’s July 2025 DoD agreement has a two-year term and a $200 million ceiling, includes prototypes fine-tuned on DoD data, and concerns Claude integration into classified U.S. defence workflows through Palantir. 14

No Israeli end-user is named in Anthropic’s public descriptions of Claude Gov or its DoD agreement. 1413

Matrix’s annual report discusses Claude alongside leading generative-AI models and states that Matrix Defense implements generative-AI and agentic architectures for defence customers, but it does not identify Claude as the model in a particular defence deployment. 10

Anthropic’s 2024 government-access policy permitted tailored foreign-intelligence use by selected government agencies while retaining restrictions on weapons design or use. 15

No public evidence identified that Anthropic granted an Israeli agency a foreign-intelligence exception, an Israeli end-user certificate, or an Anthropic-specific export-licence review for military or security use. 158910

Anthropic’s public patent-assignee index shows general machine-learning and interface-automation inventions, with no identified Anthropic-assigned patent for targeting, fire control, guidance, or autonomous weapons. 16

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Anthropic publicly describes itself as an AI company, and its patent-assignee record concerns software-oriented technologies rather than Anthropic-branded machinery, vehicles, or construction equipment. 1716

No public evidence identified of Anthropic-branded machinery, vehicles, or construction equipment being used in settlements, demolitions, the separation barrier, military installations, or other occupied-territory infrastructure. 1716

Matrix IT, the parent group of Anthropic’s authorized reseller CloudZone, remains listed in the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates for activities involving services or utilities supporting settlements and the use of natural resources, particularly land, for business purposes. 23

Who Profits reports that Matrix’s wholly owned Matrix I.T. Global Services subsidiary operates in Modi’in Illit and documents Matrix services in Ariel, Atarot, Beit El, the Jordan Valley, Ma’ale Michmash, and other occupied locations. 18

AFSC Investigate likewise records a Matrix outsourcing centre in Modi’in Illit. 6

These documented settlement-related findings concern Matrix’s corporate group and do not establish a verified Claude deployment in those locations or activities. 23810186

No public evidence identified that Anthropic or CloudZone supplied Claude for construction, demolition, checkpoint construction, settlement infrastructure, or the separation barrier. 2381018

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

The publicly documented commercial chain is Anthropic, Claude on Amazon Bedrock, CloudZone as authorized Israeli reseller, and the wider Matrix IT group. 8910

Matrix states that CloudZone serves government ministries and public-sector entities, while Matrix Defense serves the IDF, IMOD, and leading defence industries. 10

Matrix Defense describes operational deployments involving GIS, natural-language processing, video and image processing, cyber defence, intelligence, embedded systems, command-and-control, and simulation. 10

Matrix reported urgent system deployments and continuous support for IMOD and defence-industry customers during the “Swords of Iron” war. 10

No public evidence identified that Claude has been integrated into a Matrix-developed IDF system or supplied through CloudZone or Matrix to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI, or Elbit Land. 10

Google was reported in a 2025 Senate letter to hold 14% of Anthropic, meeting a 10%-or-greater shareholder screen. 19

TIME reported separately that Google provided general-purpose cloud infrastructure to IMOD, while the reviewed contract did not identify targeting or weapons use. 20

No public evidence identified of an Anthropic joint-development, co-production, technology-transfer, or licensed-manufacturing agreement with an Israeli defence prime. 14141011

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified that Anthropic provides catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, telecommunications, or other base-support services to Israeli military or security installations. 10116

No public evidence identified of Anthropic or CloudZone providing services to a named IDF base, detention centre, checkpoint, or military facility in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or Negev. 810186

No public evidence identified of Anthropic performing freight forwarding, port handling, military-cargo support, or arms-shipment logistics involving Israel. 145

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Anthropic manufactures weapons, ammunition, explosives, propellants, warheads, armoured vehicles, military aircraft, naval platforms, drones, radars, guidance systems, or physical weapon components for Israel. 141116

Washington Post reporting stated that Palantir’s Maven system, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of Iranian targets, supplied coordinates, and prioritized targets during planning for a joint U.S.–Israeli campaign in 2026. 21

Reuters reporting stated that Maven’s intelligence-analysis and weapons-targeting workflows used prompts and workflows built with Claude. 22

The Washington Post reported that it was unclear whether Maven target lists were shared with Israel despite U.S.–Israeli target coordination. 21

CBS News likewise reported that it was unclear whether the Israeli military itself used Claude and that the IDF did not answer its request for comment. 23

The available reporting therefore documents U.S. Claude use during a joint campaign, rather than verified Israeli possession or direct use of Claude. 212223

Anthropic’s March 2026 court complaint states that Claude Gov was not developed, trained, or tested for lethal autonomous warfare without human oversight. 24

Dario Amodei’s February 2026 statement nevertheless describes partially autonomous weapons as important, confirms Claude use for intelligence analysis, modelling, simulation, operational planning, and cyber operations, and offers continued research on autonomous-system reliability. 25

SIBAT’s 2018–19 directory stated that Matrix Defense had contributed to Arrow missile-defence, airborne early-warning, SIGINT, cyber, and C4ISR programmes. 11

Matrix’s 2025 annual report confirms continuing defence-system activity but does not connect Anthropic or Claude to Arrow or another Israeli strategic platform. 1011

No public evidence identified of Claude being purpose-built for Lavender, The Gospel, Where’s Daddy, Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, Merkava, Israeli combat aircraft, warships, or ballistic-missile systems. 114132110

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of a government granting, denying, suspending, or revoking an export licence specifically for Anthropic products destined for an Israeli military or security end-user. 158910

No public evidence identified of an arms-embargo, sanctions, or export-control enforcement action against Anthropic concerning Israel. 145

No court proceeding or judicial review was identified concerning an Anthropic–Israel defence-supply relationship. 24

In an unrelated U.S. matter, Anthropic filed suit on 9 March 2026 challenging the Pentagon’s designation of the company as a supply-chain risk. 24

The complaint documents Anthropic’s $200 million prototype agreement, classified deployments, modified government-use terms, and its objections to fully autonomous lethal weapons and mass domestic surveillance. 24

The pleading does not allege an Israeli contract or Israeli deployment. 24

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Anthropic is not named in the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report, PAX’s June 2024 report, Al-Haq’s July 2024 booklet, or the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-database reports, based on full-text checks of those documents. 12345

This is a document-scoped absence and does not establish absence from every civil-society source. 12345

Matrix IT, CloudZone’s parent group, is listed in both OHCHR settlement-database updates, while the Anthropic–CloudZone agreement postdates the assessment periods behind those listings. 23810

Neither OHCHR report names Anthropic or Claude. 23

Who Profits and AFSC document Matrix relationships involving IMOD, the IDF, police, Border Police, prison authorities, and COGAT, alongside Matrix operations and services in settlements and occupied locations. 186

Those profiles do not document Claude as the technology supplied in those relationships. 186

Anthropic was not listed in the BDS Movement corporate-priority guide checked in full text. 26

No public evidence identified of an institutional divestment decision or organized campaign specifically directed at Anthropic’s Israeli defence activity. 26

No Israel- or Palestine-specific corporate response, contract restriction, end-use review, or human-rights due-diligence statement was identified from Anthropic concerning CloudZone or Matrix. 152589

Anthropic’s military safeguards are publicly framed in general terms or around its U.S. government relationship. 14152524

Anthropic announced its Palantir U.S. defence agreement on 7 November 2024, and the CloudZone reseller agreement was publicly reported in March 2026. 1289

The CloudZone agreement therefore postdated the ICJ’s 19 July 2024 advisory opinion and the ICC’s 21 November 2024 arrest-warrant decision. 892728

No public evidence identified that Anthropic addressed either development when approving the CloudZone reseller arrangement. 892728

Anthropic’s governance page identifies Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Reed Hastings, Chris Liddell, and Vas Narasimhan as directors and identifies Long-Term Benefit Trust trustees. 17

No public evidence identified of a verified Israeli defence-board role, Israeli defence-prime equity holding, FIDF or reservist-fund donation, or Israel-specific military-supply act by those named principals. 17

Richard Fontaine, an Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust trustee, was a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board according to official June 2024 meeting minutes. 1729

That is a verified U.S. defence-policy role, not an Israeli defence-industry or IDF role. 1729

Footnotes

  1. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4088356/files/A_HRC_59_23-EN.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  3. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4091616/files/A_HRC_60_19-EN.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  5. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2024/07/04/business-and-human-rights-booklet-1720077751.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/matrix-it ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  7. https://apnews.com/article/430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9 ↩

  8. https://www.cloudzone.io/aws-partner ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  9. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-890937 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  10. https://www.matrix-globalservices.com/wp-content/uploads/Matrix_Q4_2025_Financial-statement_English.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21

  11. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Documents/Sibatdir-dfs-en-2018-19.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241107699415/en/Anthropic-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Bring-Claude-AI-Models-to-AWS-for-U.S.-Government-Intelligence-and-Defense-Operations ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-for-government ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/anthropic-pbc ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. https://www.anthropic.com/company ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  18. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4009 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  19. https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_from_senators_warren_wyden_to_anthropic_and_google_on_anticompetitive_ai_partnerships.pdf ↩

  20. https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/ ↩

  21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/palantir-faces-challenge-to-remove-anthropic-from-pentagons-ai-software-4542314 ↩ ↩2

  23. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-iran-war-u-s/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3%3A2026cv01996/465515/1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  25. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott ↩ ↩2

  27. https://www.icj-cij.org/index.php/node/204160 ↩ ↩2

  28. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges ↩ ↩2

  29. https://policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/Documents/DPB_Docs/DPB%20June%202024%20Minutes_508_Compliant.pdf ↩ ↩2