Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant, has sued the Trump administration over the Defense Department’s designation of the firm as a “supply chain risk” (SCR). The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal district court on Monday morning. It names a slew of federal departments, agencies, and commissions as defendants, in addition to numerous administration officials in their official capacities.

(In its lawsuit, the company named the “Department of War” as the lead defendant, adopting the Trump administration’s nomenclature for the Defense Department, including in its reference to co-defendant Pete Hegseth as the “Secretary of War.” Congress, however, created the department as

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