AI Agenda: Anthropic Has a Strong Legal Case Against Trump’s DoD

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Anthropic’s lawyers probably spent the weekend preparing a lawsuit the company said it would file against the Department of Defense for designating the Claude AI maker as a “supply chain risk” and cutting off commercial ties to “protect national security.” The designation followed Anthropic’s request for special assurances its tech wouldn’t be used for fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. (Read a full account of the affair here.) The Anthropic lawyers’ hard work is likely to pay off.