The US government's decision to banish AI giant Anthropic from its entire supply chain has handed Germany and Europe a "once-in-a-lifetime chance," according to a politician from the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), junior partner in Chancellor Friedrich Merz 's government coalition. Anthropic, valued at $380 billion (€327 billion), has developed a series of large language models named Claude with a huge variety of applications, including piloting drones. The company has partnered