The Trump administration has in a court filing said that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was justified and lawful, and it opposes the artificial intelligence lab’s ?lawsuit challenging the decision. The legal filing says Anthropic is unlikely to succeed on its claims that its speech protections were violated under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, asserting the dispute stems from contract ?negotiations and national security concerns rather than retaliation. “It was only when Anthropic refused to release the ?restrictions on the use of its products – which refusal is conduct, not protected speech – that the President ?directed all federal agencies to terminate their business relationships with Anthropic,” the filing from ?the U.S. Justice Department said, observing that “no one has purported to restrict Anthropic’s expressive activity.”