[U.S. Department of Defense Official: Hopes of Restarting AI Cooperation Talks with Anthropic Are Slim] According to Deep Tide TechFlow, on March 10, citing Jin10 Data, a senior U.S. Department of Defense official stated that hopes of restarting negotiations with Anthropic to use its artificial intelligence tools for military purposes are slim after Anthropic filed an unprecedented legal challenge against the U.S. government for designating it as a supply chain risk. Emil Michael, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, said on Monday that Anthropic's lawsuit was an 'expected response,' and the company's attempt to overturn the supply chain risk designation would not change the Pentagon's decision. In an interview, Michael stated, 'I don’t think there’s a possibility of resolving this issue in this way.' Just hours before Michael made these remarks, Anthropic filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Pentagon and other agencies from designating it as a U.S. supply chain threat and barring it from obtaining government contracts. In court documents filed earlier on Monday, Anthropic claimed that these actions violated the company's constitutional rights to free speech and due process.