Anthropic is suing the US government for blacklisting it and it's calling in support from Google and OpenAI

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In yet another twist and turn in the story, Anthropic is suing the US government in response.According to Anthropic CEO Dari Amodei, “They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.”Anthropic filed its complaint (PDF warning) on March 09, claiming that Anthropic held to its principles of building AI that “maximises positive outcomes for humanity” and the US government, in turn, “retaliated against it for expressing that principle.”Article continues below You may like Anthropic is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’ ‘I think this is crazy’: Anthropic’s CEO takes a potshot at Nvidia and the US government for selling AI chips to China ‘We shouldn’t ha