This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 9th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know,

give you some important context. And today we're really going to try to help you understand.

Today, Anthropic filed this lawsuit against the U.S. calling it a supply chain risk. We break down the case and we're going to try to help you understand. Today, Anthropic filed this lawsuit against the U.S.

calling it a supply chain risk. We break down the case and we're going to discuss it and let you know

what's going on. Yeah, we're going to try to figure out if they have a chance of winning it.

I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob Dunwood. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Thanks to Fred, who noted our big story on the DTNS subreddit, Anthropic filed two lawsuits on Monday against the United States government, one in California federal court, and another in Washington, D.C.'s federal appeals court.

I could not find the actual text of that one.

Reportedly, it challenges whether

Anthropic can rightfully be considered an adversary, as is required by the definition of supply

chain risk in 10 U.S.C. 3252. That's the law being used to justify the designation of Anthropic

as a supply chain risk.

The lawsuit filed in California, however, I did get a chance to look at the text of.

That one disputes the designation on five separate grounds.

And the first one is one I talked about as a possibility on the weekend edition of DTNS.

If you haven't listened to that, I go into detail on the actual law,

USC 3252. It is unclear that the Department of Defense followed the procedures of that law.

They require the department write down its reasoning about why the designation is necessary,

why there is not a less intrusive

measure that could do the same thing and deliver that to Congress. Now, they've written it

down and sent it to Anthropic, but it's not clear they sent it to Congress. So Anthropic

is saying they didn't follow the procedures of the law. That's point one. Anthropic also says

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