Anthropic has temporarily failed to prevent the Pentagon from blacklisting it.

MeNews · 2026-04-09T02:40:17+00:00

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit by Anthropic seeking to block the Department of Defense's blacklist, ruling that the government's priorities in managing military technology take precedence over private companies' economic losses.

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2026-04-09 02:40:17

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ME News. On April 9 (UTC+8), Wednesday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. rejected a request from Anthropic to temporarily block the Department of Defense from putting the company on a blacklist. The company is currently suing over these sanctions. Previously, at the end of last month, a judge at the U.S. Federal Court in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction in another related case, barring the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on the use of the company’s Claude artificial intelligence model.

In its ruling, the appeals court said: “We believe that the balance of equities in this case favors the government.” “On the one hand, the risk of economic harm to a private company is relatively small; on the other hand, during a military conflict, how the Department of Defense obtains, and through whom it obtains, critical AI technology requires oversight by the judiciary. Therefore, we deny Anthropic’s motion to stay execution, pending review of the merits of the case.” (Source: BlockBeats)

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