US Pentagon's attempt to 'cripple' Anthropic concerns US judge

By Amy Miller ( March 24, 2026, 23:22 GMT | Insight) -- The US government’s blacklisting of Anthropic appears to be both an attempt to “cripple” the artificial intelligence company for publicizing its contract dispute with the Pentagon, and a violation of the First Amendment, US District Judge Rita F. Lin in San Francisco said. The Defense Department could have just stopped using Anthropic’s large language model Claude if it had concerns about the company, she said, but instead it “looks like” the government “went further than that because they were trying to punish Anthropic.”The US government’s blacklisting of Anthropic appears to be both an attempt to “cripple” the artificial intelligence company for publicizing its contract dispute with the Pentagon, and a violation of the First Amendment, a US judge in San Francisco said Tuesday....

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US Pentagon's attempt to 'cripple' Anthropic concerns US judge

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