New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- AI startup Anthropic on Friday said it will challenge the Trump administration's decision to declare the company a supply chain risk, taking matters to the court.

This came hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued the order in a statement on X following a directive from President Donald Trump who asked every federal agency to drop Anthropic and Claude from its workflow.

"This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons," Anthropic said in a statement shortly after Hegseth's announcement.

It noted that the company had not yet received any for...