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…
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