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No 'kill switch' to block US military's use of Claude, Anthropic tells DC Circuit

By Amy Miller and Mike Swift ( April 23, 2026, 00:10 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic cannot control how the military uses its technology, the artificial intelligence company told a US appeals court Wednesday. Once Anthropic’s large language model Claude is deployed by the Defense Department, the company no longer has access and there is no “kill switch” that the company could deploy, the company said in its opening brief to the court.The US government's claim that Anthropic can control how the military uses its technology is false, the artificial intelligence company told the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Wednesday....

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