Anthropic to take Trump’s Pentagon to court over AI dispute

Anthropic vowed to challenge the Pentagon in court over its blacklisting of the company for refusing to lift all safeguards on the military’s use of its model, Claude — adding it’s “deeply saddened” by the escalating dispute.Why it matters: The frontier AI company is doing what few other companies have done since Trump’s second term began — directly and publicly challenging the administration.President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened earlier Friday to cut off Anthropic from a plethora of customers through a “supply chain risk” designation — treatment that historically has been reserved for foreign adversaries.What they’re saying: “No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons,” Anthropic said in a statement Friday night…  » …