On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over being designated as a supply chain risk. Hours later, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google – including Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and Gemini lead – filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s lawsuit, detailing their concerns over the Trump administration’s decision and the technology’s risks and implications.
The news follows a dramatic few weeks for Anthropic, in which the Trump administration labeled the company a supply chain risk – a designation typically reserved for foreign companies that the government deems a potential risk to national …