Anthropic PBC vowed to legally contest a Pentagon decision to declare the company a threat to the US supply chain under an authority normally reserved for foreign adversaries, escalating a showdown with the Trump administration over artificial intelligence safeguards.

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said the company has "no choice" but to challenge in court the Pentagon's formal designation of the artificial intelligence firm as a risk to US national security.

A top Pentagon official says a fight with Anthropic centered on how the military could someday use artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons. Defense Undersecretary Emil Michael told

A high-stakes dispute over how the U.S. military uses artificial intelligence has led the Pentagon to cancel its contract with rising AI star Anthropic.

Microsoft is the first major company to say it will keep using Anthropic models in its products.

Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk metadata from the phones of Americans, the US is still navigating a gap between what ordinary people think is surveillance and what the law allows.

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back at the negotiating table with the U.S. Department of Defense after the breakdown of talks on Friday.