Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and government leaders

The company asserts that the administration’s actions to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk and order its removal from all federal agencies are retaliatory and not based on risk to national security.

In the wake of Anthropic being blacklisted by the federal government, the company has filed a sweeping lawsuit against over a dozen federal agencies and government leaders — including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Services Administration Administrator Edward Forst — claiming the federal government is inappropriately retaliating against it.

In a March 9 court filing with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, Anthropic claims that defendants named in the lawsuit are illegally punishing Anthropic's choice not to change the terms of use for its AI product to work with the Department of Defense.

The court filing offers background into Anthropic’s product, the large language model Claude and its extensive work ...