Trump Administration Blacklists AI Firm Anthropic. Now the Company Is Suing the Pentagon.

The Pentagon rarely labels an American technology company a “supply chain risk.” The designation is typically reserved for firms tied to foreign adversaries or companies that could expose sensitive government systems to compromise. But in late February, the Trump administration applied that label to one of the most prominent artificial intelligence developers in the United States. On Monday, Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system, turned up the heat on the fight by filing a federal lawsuit against the Pentagon and several government agencies after the administration ordered agencie

The Pentagon rarely labels an American technology company a “supply chain risk.” The designation is typically reserved for firms tied to foreign adversaries or companies that could expose sensitive government systems to compromise. But in late February, the Trump administration applied that label to one of the most prominent artificial intelligence developers in the United States. On Monday, Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system, turned up the heat on the fight by filing a federal lawsuit against the Pentagon and several government agencies after the administration ordered agencie