The U.S. Department of Defense has begun engineering work to replace Anthropic's Claude AI across its systems after labeling the company a supply-chain risk, while Anthropic sues the Pentagon in federal court challenging the unprecedented blacklist.
Anthropic announced it is doubling the usage limits for Claude AI subscribers during off-peak hours, a significant capacity expansion that comes as Claude's daily active users have surged over 140% since January 2026.
Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon over its 'supply chain risk' designation gained new momentum as the ACLU and CDT filed an amicus brief, arguing the designation unlawfully punishes the company's First Amendment-protected AI safety advocacy.
Anthropic has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration after the Pentagon designated it a 'supply-chain risk to national security,' accusing the government of retaliating against the AI company for refusing to allow its Claude models to be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
Anthropic commits $100M to its new Claude Partner Network, enlisting Accenture, Deloitte, and Cognizant to make Claude the default AI platform for global enterprises.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp publicly criticized Anthropic's reluctance to work with the U.S. Department of Defense, arguing that AI companies refusing government defense contracts are undermining national security and that there has 'never been a sense' that such restrictions are justified.
Anthropic's legal and public dispute with the U.S. Department of Defense has intensified after the Pentagon's AI chief called the company's stance 'bananas.' The conflict centers on a supply-chain risk designation that Anthropic argues threatens its ability to operate independently.
Anthropic has launched a beta feature enabling Claude to generate interactive charts, diagrams, and data visualizations inline during conversations, rolling out free to all plan tiers and competing directly with similar tools from OpenAI and Google.
Anthropic is reportedly in advanced discussions with private equity giants Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman to establish a new AI joint venture, as the company simultaneously battles its Pentagon supply-chain designation in court.
Anthropic launched Code Review for Claude Code, a multi-agent AI tool that automatically analyzes GitHub pull requests for logical errors, prioritizes findings by severity, and costs $15–$25 per review—addressing the growing bottleneck caused by the surge in AI-generated code in enterprise environments.
More than 30 employees from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, including Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief warning that the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic threatens the entire U.S. AI industry's global competitiveness and could trigger a broader revolt of tech workers.
Microsoft filed an amicus brief in federal court supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon, urging a judge to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the DOD's supply chain risk designation and warning the ban could 'hamper U.S. warfighters' by disrupting AI systems already in use.
Anthropic has released a new multi-agent code review tool for Claude Code, designed to automatically detect bugs and security vulnerabilities in the growing volume of AI-generated code across software development pipelines.
Employees from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and other AI companies have rushed to Anthropic's defense by filing an amicus brief in its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over AI safety restrictions.
Anthropic's Claude AI model autonomously discovered 22 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox within a two-week period, demonstrating the growing capability of large language models to perform advanced cybersecurity research at scale.
Following the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, cloud giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have confirmed that Claude remains available to all their customers except those using it directly under Department of Defense contracts, limiting the practical impact of the designation.
Anthropic's Claude app has overtaken ChatGPT in U.S. daily downloads and is seeing explosive growth in daily active users — reaching 11.3 million on March 2 — as consumers rally behind the company after its refusal to allow AI use in mass domestic surveillance.
Anthropic's Claude app surpasses 1 million new sign-ups per day and overtakes ChatGPT in US daily downloads, as the Pentagon dispute paradoxically fuels a massive wave of consumer support.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei vows to challenge in court the Pentagon's unprecedented decision to label the AI company a national security supply chain risk, the first time a US firm has received such a designation.
Anthropic released a major economic research paper introducing a new 'observed exposure' metric for AI labor displacement, finding that while higher-exposure occupations show slower projected job growth, there is no systematic rise in unemployment yet.
