Humanity sued in federal court to overturn the Trump administration’s “supply chain risk” designation.

Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to overturn a Pentagon decision designating the AI ​​company as a “supply chain risk” because of its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.

Anthropic filed two separate lawsuits on Monday, one in federal court in California and the other in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., each challenging different aspects of the Pentagon’s actions against the company.

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The Pentagon last week officially designated the San Francisco technology company as a supply chain risk after an unusually public dispute over how chatbot Claude was used in war.

“These actions are unprecedented and unlawful,” Anthropic’s lawsuit says. “The Constitution does not allow the government to exercise its overwhelming power to punish a company for its protected speech. There is no federal law authorizing the actions taken here. Man turns to the judiciary as a last resort to defend his rights and stop the executive branch’s illegal retaliation campaign.”

The Department of Defense declined to comment Monday, citing a policy of not commenting on litigation-related matters.

Anthropic said it sought to restrict the use of its technology to two high-profile uses: mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and other officials publicly insisted that the company must accept “all lawful uses” of Claude and threatened punishment if Anthropic did not comply.

Designating the company as a supply chain risk cuts off Anthropic’s defensive work using an authority designed to prevent foreign adversaries from harming national security systems. This was the first time the federal government was known to use the designation against a US company.

President Donald Trump also said he would order federal agencies to stop using Cloud, though he gave the Pentagon six months to phase out a product deeply rooted in classified military systems, including those used in the Iran war.

Anthropic’s lawsuit also names other federal agencies, including the Treasury and State Departments, after officials ordered employees to stop using Anthropic’s services.

Even as it fights the Pentagon’s actions, Anthropic has sought to convince companies and other government agencies that the Trump administration’s sanction is a narrow one that only affects military contractors when they use CLOUD to work for the Department of Defense.

Clarifying this distinction is crucial for Anthropic, a private company, because most of its projected $14 billion in revenue this year comes from companies and government agencies that use Cloud for computer encryption and other tasks. More than 500 Anthropic customers pay at least $1 million a year for Cloud, according to a recent investment filing that values ​​the company at $380 billion.

“Requesting judicial review does not change our long-standing commitment to harnessing artificial intelligence to protect our national security, but this is a necessary step to protect our business, customers and partners,” Anthropic said in a statement on Monday.