New Delhi, March 11 -- The clash between Anthropic and the US government has now reached the courts. The Claude AI maker had been in negotiations with the Pentagon for weeks about the use of its AI in classified settings but the talks finally broke down late last month when Anthropic said that the US Department of Defence (DoD) refused to agree to its two red lines.

1) After the US government decided to label a 'supply chain risk', Anthropic filed dual lawsuits against the DoD and broader administration. The lawsuit claims that the Trump administration decision to place the AI startup on the blacklist is attempt to punish it for its AI guardrails.

"The federal government retaliated against a leading frontier AI developer for adhering to...