Anthropic claims its Claude AI systems were informally blacklisted from federal contracts without legal procedure, challenging the government amid rapid adoption of generative AI favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Anthropic has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against several federal agencies, including Treasury, Commerce, State, HHS, Veterans Affairs, and the GSA. The company alleges its Claude AI systems were effectively blacklisted from government procurement on national security and supply-chain grounds without formal determinations, documented evidence, or evaluation of less restrictive alternatives. Anthropic seeks a court declaration that the restrictions are unlawful and an injunction against enforcement, potentially reopening federal AI procurement and setting a precedent for agency conduct.