New Delhi, March 13 -- On 5 March, Anthropic PBC said it would challenge the US Department of War in court after being labelled a "supply chain risk".

The maker of Claude AI said no private company should be involved in operational military decision-making, stressing that its concerns relate only to fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, not battlefield operations. Four days later, Anthropic filed two lawsuits against the DoW and other federal agencies, calling the Trump administration's move "unprecedented and unlawful" and a violation of free speech.

The company told the court that hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue could be at risk. Its CFO said revenue from defence contractors and others reliant on the DoD ...