‘Attempted corporate murder’: Judge calls on Anthropic and Department of War to explain dispute over supply chain risk 

Lawyers for the Department of War and Anthropic sparred in a California federal court on Tuesday over Anthropic’s challenge to the Pentagon labeling it a “supply-chain risk” to national security and banning all government contractors from using the company’s sweeping AI tools. Anthropic is seeking an injunction barring enforcement of that order.

The case—which involves a historic first in that the Department of Defense, informally renamed the Department of War (DOW) by the Trump administration...