Anthropic Tells Judge Billions at Stake If US Shuns AI Tool

Anthropic PBC told a judge it could lose as much as billions of dollars in revenue this year and urged quick action on its request to block the Trump administration’s declaration of the company as a US supply-chain risk after a blowup with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety issues.

The startup made a case for urgency to US District Judge Rita F. Lin at a hearing in San Francisco a day after Anthropic sued the Defense Department over the supply-risk designation. The dispute is over the startup’s demand for assurances that its AI wouldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons deployment.