Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over 'Supply-Chain Risk' Label After Refusing to Enable Mass Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons

Anthropic sues the Pentagon in two federal courts, challenging its controversial 'supply-chain risk' designation after refusing to let its AI be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons, calling the government's move unconstitutional retaliation that is causing immediate, irreparable harm to its business.

• Anthropic files two lawsuits against the Department of Defense in California and Washington, D.C., challenging its designation as a supply-chain risk, a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries that effectively bars federal agencies from using its AI models.
• The legal action stems from a conflict over Anthropic's refusal to allow its technology to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons, positions the Trump administration and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have criticized as 'woke' and 'radical.'
• Anthropic argues the government's actions are unconstitutional retaliation against protected speech, were executed without following required legal procedures, and are causing immediate and irreparable harm to its business after the GSA terminated its federal contract.