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Anthropic is weighing a legal challenge after the Pentagon labeled the AI startup a supply chain risk to U.S. national security, a move that has already triggered canceled federal contracts and heightened tensions between the company and Washington.
CEO Dario Amodei said Anthropic believes the decision is not legally justified and may ultimately challenge it in court. In a blog post, Amodei said the government’s designation applies narrowly to cases where Claude AI is used directly within Department of War contracts, not to all commercial uses of the technology.
The dispute intensified after the Trump administration ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI tools, canceling more than $200 million in contracts. Meanwhile, OpenAI recently secured a Pentagon agreement to deploy its models inside a classified government network.
Anthropic, backed by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), says it will continue defending its policies around responsible AI use.
