How Anthropic may benefit from its fight with Trump | CNN Business

Anthropic’s high-stakes gamble to take on the Trump administration could give it an advantage in the AI race. The AI company says it’s at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts from the Trump administration’s designation of the company as a supply-chain risk. But fighting that decision in court appears to be earning it other benefits: strengthened recruitment, public brand recognition and employee morale. Anthropic could join a handful of companies that have gained positive exposure after directly opposing the administration. “I think it’s a calculated political risk,” said Alison Taylor, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who studies corporate strategy and has written about Anthropic. “There’s a decent chance they walk out of this looking better than anybody else.” Anthropic has long positioned itself as an AI company that prioritizes safety and ethics in contrast to its competitors. The Trump administration’s designation that Anthropic was a supply-chain risk — the first such designation for an American company — stems from Anthropic’s refusal to back down over those safet