Matt O’Brien, reporting for AP News:

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is suing to stop the Trump administration from enforcing what it calls an “unlawful campaign of retaliation” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.

Anthropic asked federal courts on Monday to reverse the Pentagon’s decision last week to designate the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk.” The company also seeks to undo President Donald Trump’s order directing federal employees to stop using its AI chatbot Claude.

Kudos to Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei for fighting this clearly inane and punitive designation—and his concerns over mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are well-founded. Still, I’d be much more supportive if Amodei wasn’t also saying that his company “has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences,” and he’s “okay with all use cases, basically 98% or 99% of the use cases they want to do.”

(I still vastly prefer Amodei over Sam Altman, who vultured his way into the DoD contract, which even Altman himself acknowledged looked opportunistic and sloppy.)