The Claude maker filed two complaints against the DOD on Monday in California and Washington, D.C., after a weeks-long conflict between Anthropic and the DOD over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic's AI systems. Anthropic had two firm red lines: It didn't want its technology to be used for mass surveillance of Americans and didn't believe it was ready to power fully autonomous weapons with no humans making targeting and firing decisions. A supply-chain risk label is usually reserved for foreign adversaries and requires any company or agency that does work with the Pentagon to certify that it doesn't use Anthropic's models. While several private companies are still working with Anthropic, the firm is poised to lose much of its business within the government. Anthropic called the DOD's actions 'unprecedented and unlawful' and accuses the administration of retaliation in a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court. 'The Constitution does not allow...
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