Anthropic sued the Department of Defense on Monday over a supply chain risk designation, a label the government typically reserves for foreign entities deemed national security threats. Within hours, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google filed an amicus brief backing the lawsuit.
The signatories include Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and lead of the Gemini program. The brief details specific concerns about the Trump administration's rationale for the designation and its broader implications for domestic AI development and deployment.
The full filing is worth reading for its technical arguments: these are not PR statements, they are sworn legal positions from people who build competing systems. The case turns on what 'supply chain risk' means when applied to an American AI lab, and the answer will set precedent.
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