Nancy Marshall-Genzer

International Development Finance Corporation, or DFC, will provide political risk insurance, which covers losses from things like war and political unrest.

In a social media post, the president says the insurance will be available to all shipping lines.

The DFC is offering support to commercial shipping charters, ship owners, and what it calls key maritime insurance providers.

The DFC specializes in public-private partnerships, usually in developing nations.

It's not clear how much the insurance will cost.

The DFC is trying to replace private war risk insurance that's been withdrawn for ships going to the Persian Gulf.

Oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have mostly been blocked after threats from Iran.

President Trump says the U.S.

Navy will escort ships through the Strait if necessary, but it's not clear there are enough U.S.

ships in the area to do that.

I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzer for Marketplace.

Anthropic is insisting that its technology, like its chatbot Claude, not be used in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

The Defense Department is insisting it be allowed to deploy AI for, quote, any lawful use.

In a post on X, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell says the military has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans anymore.

and doesn't want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons.

Parnell says Anthropic has until 5.01 p.m.

Eastern time today to decide.

Otherwise, the Pentagon will terminate its partnership with Anthropic and label the company a supply chain risk.

Anthropic would be blacklisted, and its partnerships with other firms could be severed.

Anthropic still says its strong preference is to continue to serve the Pentagon with surveillance and autonomous weapons safeguards.