AI company Anthropic hires BigLaw firm to fight blacklisting
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which is suing the U.S. Department of Defense over its decision to blacklist it, has picked for counsel Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Sipa via the Associated Press)
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which is suing the U.S. Department of Defense over its decision to blacklist it, has picked for counsel Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a BigLaw firm that has also been targeted by the Trump administration.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in California, Anthropic accused the Defense Department of retaliating after it tried to limit how its AI tools are used on battlefields and for surveillance.
The suit also challenges the Defense Department’s decision to declare that Anthropic poses a threat to the U.S. supply chain and asked that a judge block the Pentagon’s move to give AI work to OpenAI and other rivals, according to an article by Bloomberg Law.
WilmerHale was among the law firms that President Donald Trump slapped with executive orders last year. To support the company’s claims that the administration is violating its constitutional rights, WilmerHale lawyers representing Anthropic cited federal court rulings striking down orders against other firms last year, according to Bloomberg Law.
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