With multi-billions of dollars of revenue at risk, Anthropic sends in the lawyers against Trump 2.0's ban. What next?

As Anthropic admits a Pentagon blacklist of the company and its tech could cause the business to lose out on "multiple billions of dollars" in revenue, the firm has made good on its threat to legal up against Trump 2.0.

Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense and other Federal agencies after being labelled a “supply chain risk” following its refusal to remove ethics clauses barring use of its AI for mass surveillance of domestic citizens and autonomous weapons launching.

In a 48-page lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Anthropic calls Pentagon reprisal to its refusal to abandon its conduct clauses"unprecedented and unlawful.”

The first of these claims seems easily provable. This is the first time that the Pentagon has issued a supply chain risk designation against a US company, never mind one that only 24 hours ...