{"id":22451,"date":"2026-03-25T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:37:14","slug":"anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company\u2019s AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Anthropic refused to let its AI to be used in autonomous weapons systems, Trump ordered US agencies to quit using it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthropic faced against the Department of Defense in a federal court on Tuesday afternoon, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> company seeks a temporary pause on the government\u2019s decision to bar the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> and any contractors from using its technology. The two sides have been locked in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/09\/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-pentagon\">escalating feud<\/a> over Anthropic\u2019s refusal to allow its Claude AI chatbot to be used for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has ordered all US government agencies to stop using Anthropic\u2019s tools, which the company is also contesting.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the AI firm and the government appeared in a northern California district court, where Judge Rita Lin presided over the hearing for a temporary injunction. The hearing is one of the first steps in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/09\/anthropic-defense-department-lawsuit-ai\">Anthropic\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> against the defense department, which it filed earlier this month after Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, declared the company a supply chain risk \u2013 a designation that Anthropic alleges will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/anthropic-seeks-court-stay-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-designation-2026-03-12\/\">cause irreparable harm<\/a> and cost hundreds of millions or more in revenue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/anthropic-pentagon-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/af4915a6ba1caec426b216d6719dab95157d0ad3\/432_0_4320_3456\/master\/4320.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d57cf15c93a782fa7eda2fdba7dbaaea\" title=\"Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company\u2019s AI model\" \/>After Anthropic refused to let its AI to be used in autonomous weapons systems, Trump ordered US agencies to quit using it<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<br \/>\nAnthropic faced against the Department of Defense in a federal court on Tuesday afternoon, as the artificial intelligence company seeks a temporary pause on the government\u2019s decision to bar the US military and any contractors from using its technology. The two sides have been locked in an escalating feud over Anthropic\u2019s refusal to allow its Claude AI chatbot to be used for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. Donald Trump has ordered all US government agencies to stop using Anthropic\u2019s tools, which the company is also contesting.<br \/>\nRepresentatives for the AI firm and the government appeared in a northern California district court, where Judge Rita Lin presided over the hearing for a temporary injunction. The hearing is one of the first steps in Anthropic\u2019s lawsuit against the defense department, which it filed earlier this month after Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, declared the company a supply chain risk \u2013 a designation that Anthropic alleges will cause irreparable harm and cost hundreds of millions or more in revenue. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Anthropic refused to let its AI to be used in autonomous weapons systems, Trump ordered US agencies to quit using it Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Anthropic faced against the Department of Defense in a federal court on Tuesday afternoon, as the artificial intelligence &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company\u2019s AI model<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22452,"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\/22451"}],"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=22451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}