There’s a lot the Pentagon would need to do in order to officially designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, but if Defense officials proceed as indicated, legal analysts are betting that Anthropic would sue and win.
March 10, 2026
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced a March 23 public “listening session” to discuss allocation of $50 million remaining in the agency’s Innovation Fund, with an eye toward advancing Trump administration artificial intelligence initiatives including the “American AI” export program.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will gather more feedback from stakeholders before releasing guidance on disbursement of so-called BEAD funds, including on how the agency will restrict funding to states with “onerous AI laws” under President Trump’s December artificial intelligence executive order.
Policymakers in the United Kingdom should reject recommendations in a House of Lords committee report that came down against industry’s push for more exceptions to current restrictions on the use of data for training artificial intelligence models, according to the tech-based Chamber of Progress.
Anthropic has filed suit against the Defense Department and Secretary Pete Hegseth following its designation as a “supply-chain risk,” while listing the Executive Office of the President, the General Services Administration and fifteen other agencies, along with their secretaries and other officials, as defendants in a case involving a presidential ban on use of its AI tools across the federal government.
USTelecom, in response to an inquiry on securing agentic artificial intelligence, expresses strong support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s voluntary AI risk management framework and emphasizes NIST’s role in producing “clear, broadly applicable” resources that can help avoid inconsistent requirements in different jurisdictions.
Artificial intelligence is a core component of the Trump administration’s new national cybersecurity strategy, with the cutting-edge technology portrayed as both an unprecedented security tool and valuable national asset to be zealously protected.
The Center for Democracy and Technology is sounding the alarm in response to Department of Homeland Security efforts to secure the ability to change the accuracy threshold under which face matching artificial intelligence technology will provide outputs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s efforts to alleviate concerns about the prospect of artificial intelligence being used for mass domestic surveillance or in fully autonomous weapons -- in the wake of an agreement to provide the Pentagon classified access to the company’s models -- have only managed to grow fears, according to Public Citizen.
The Center for Democracy and Technology was unassured by OpenAI’s assertion that its personnel will be “in the loop” on activities involving the Pentagon’s use of its artificial intelligence technology, according to Samir Jain, CDT’s vice president of policy.
Senate Commerce examines health and industrial AI deployment, as senior members offer education bill
A Senate Commerce panel dug into health-sector and industrial uses of artificial intelligence, as lawmakers continued their focus on AI and the workplace, and two senior committee members offered a bill to expand AI-related scholarship activities.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is poised to consider bipartisan legislation that would make it even harder for U.S. vendors of artificial intelligence technology to market themselves, both at home and abroad, by requiring companies to track their users, according to the Information Technology Industry Council.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) has introduced legislation to ensure workers aren’t “left behind” by the artificial intelligence boom, but some high-profile economists argue a much more comprehensive approach is needed to correct the AI industry’s current course.
The artificial intelligence industry’s champions endured a year’s worth of turbulence in the short month of February, including the high-profile Pentagon-Anthropic clash, pushback over data centers, sharp congressional criticism of bad behavior in the digital space and more.
Leaders of AI industry sign Trump’s ‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ to absorb data center energy costs
President Trump eagerly claimed delivery on a State of the Union promise as leading artificial intelligence companies pledged to absorb the energy costs of AI data centers under a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” but critics from civil society groups dismissed the pledge as an empty gesture without enforceable commitments.
The Pentagon’s move to ban Anthropic from government contracts provoked outrage among congressional Democrats, rattled the tech sector, and spurred opposition from civil society and some security groups, though war in the Middle East quickly drowned out an unprecedented debate over the government’s relationship with artificial intelligence companies.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said President Trump’s decision to ban Anthropic from defense and civilian agency contacts was necessary following its insistence on imposing conditions around the military’s use of AI tools, but the firm said its “exceptions” would pose no obstacles to the government and vowed to challenge in court any effort to designate the company as a supply-chain risk.
President Trump is ordering the Pentagon and “every federal agency” to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools, with a six-month phaseout at the Defense Department, but the decision following a high-profile clash over the tech firm’s conditions for use has drawn criticism from the technology community and sharp denunciations on Capitol Hill.
The tech-based Special Competitive Studies Project is attempting to fill a “void” in metrics for comparing the relative positions of the United States and China in artificial intelligence and advanced technology, unveiling a “tech scorecard” to assess “advantages and disadvantages” on an ongoing basis.
Cisco’s annual report on the state of industrial AI finds eager adoption of artificial intelligence tools by manufacturers despite ongoing “networking” constraints and potential cybersecurity risks, among other challenges.
The Trump administration should not invoke the Defense Production Act to compel Anthropic to make its model available for use as the military sees fit, according to free market advocate Neil Chilson.
The federal government should clear the way for states to steer the direction of artificial intelligence, starting with changes that would allow the taxation of social media companies’ advertising revenues, according to Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), who is generally known for his centrist views.
President Trump has selected Adam Cassady, current deputy administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to serve as the next ambassador-at-large for cyberspace and digital policy at the State Department.
A policy memo from the Institute for Security and Technology examines uncertainty in the U.S. approach to artificial intelligence export controls, saying the Trump administration decision to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 chips to China, plus a shifting focus on Capitol Hill to cloud access controls, reveal an evolving environment rife with potential tradeoffs.
After Anthropic detailed “distillation attacks” on its Claude model, xAI CEO Elon Musk seized on comments describing its position as hypocritical to advance his campaign to label the company “MisAnthropic,” but concerns about Chinese companies “stealing intellectual property” are resonating in Congress and within the Trump administration.
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg suggested in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that a pilot project planned by United Arab Emirates tech giant G42 would be used to oversee U.S. export controls on semiconductors crucial to the artificial intelligence industry, with cryptography and geolocation technology.
A new policy brief from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence stressed a need for increased transparency in recommendations for governing the insurance industry’s use of the technology, given the rate at which coverage is being denied.
The Department of Justice is highlighting what it describes as the “first-ever conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges” as a federal jury in San Francisco delivered 14 guilty verdicts in the case of former Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was charged with stealing documents containing artificial intelligence trade secrets “for the benefit” of China.
Claims regarding the design, manufacture and marketing of Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot embedded in the social media platform X, are among several in a new lawsuit that pre-emptively targets a defense based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, in conjunction with the creation of non-consensual deepfake images.
U.S. District Court Judge Anne Conway has dismissed a landmark lawsuit claiming the “wrongful death” of teenager Sewell Setzer III, who committed suicide after an extended engagement with an artificial intelligence chatbot on the Character.AI platform, according to a court filing.
AI data centers should be required to report to federal officials on energy and water usage, University of California Santa Barbara professor Eric Masanet testified at a House Science subcommittee hearing, saying facility operators already collect such data.
A lack of transparency into the financing that has fueled the artificial intelligence boom is cause for serious concern, according to economists who are “nervous” about a simultaneous absence of regulation to govern the technology’s advance.
AI developer Anthropic has issued a report on how its autonomous AI agent is behaving and being used in the real world, with findings that play into public policy debates on setting guardrails and reporting requirements around the most advanced artificial intelligence tools.
State legislative proposals and laws on artificial intelligence largely address uses of the technology by state governments themselves rather than on regulating industry development or deployment of AI, according to a posting by the free market-based American Enterprise Institute, based on a new analysis by the University of Florida.