{"id":22299,"date":"2026-03-12T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:39:00","slug":"microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic\u2019s legal challenge against the US Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/72379655\/32\/anthropic-pbc-v-us-department-of-war\/\">amicus brief<\/a> submitted to a federal court in San Francisco this week, Microsoft, which integrates Anthropic\u2019s AI tools into systems it provides to the US military, argued that a temporary restraining order was necessary to prevent serious disruption to suppliers whose products rely on the AI company\u2019s technology. Google, Amazon, Apple and OpenAI have also signed on to a brief in support of Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/12\/microsoft-amicus-brief-anthropic-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2a5411c36099f7543f30d9cb2378dbbb197d94d6\/340_0_2467_1975\/master\/2467.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=baffa4b5de0a70d694be769f4fc0c4a5\" title=\"Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon\" \/>Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation<br \/>\nMicrosoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic\u2019s legal challenge against the US Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work.<br \/>\nIn an amicus brief submitted to a federal court in San Francisco this week, Microsoft, which integrates Anthropic\u2019s AI tools into systems it provides to the US military, argued that a temporary restraining order was necessary to prevent serious disruption to suppliers whose products rely on the AI company\u2019s technology. Google, Amazon, Apple and OpenAI have also signed on to a brief in support of Anthropic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation Microsoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic\u2019s legal challenge against the US Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work. In an amicus &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}