Anthropic and Pentagon are in court over the ban on the company’s AI model

Anthropic faced a lawsuit against the Defense Department in federal court Tuesday afternoon as the artificial intelligence company seeks a temporary stay of the administration’s decision to ban the U.S. military and all contractors from using its technology. The two sides are embroiled in an escalating dispute over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the use of its Claude AI chatbot for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. Donald Trump has ordered all US government agencies to stop using Anthropic’s tools, something the company also denies.

Representatives of the AI ​​company and the government appeared in a district court in northern California, where Judge Rita Lin presided over the hearing for an injunction. The hearing is one of the first steps in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Defense Department, which was filed earlier this month after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk – a designation that Anthropic…