The Department of War on Monday denied claims that it retaliated against Anthropic by labeling the AI company a supply-chain risk after it refused to grant unrestricted access to its Claude AI model.
The Pentagon’s filing came after Anthropic sued in March to challenge the designation, alleging that the federal government was punishing the company for its First Amendment-protected speech and viewpoint.
The designation, imposed under a federal law designed to protect military systems from foreign sabotage, prevents the company from doing business with the federal government and its contractors.
In its filing, the Pentagon argued that Anthropic’s claim under the Administrative Procedure Act—a federal law that allows courts to set aside agency actions found to be contrary to constitutional rights—is not subject to judicial review because the company is not challenging a “final agency action.”…