A federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic’s bid to block the Pentagon from declaring that the company poses a supply-chain risk to US national security, a move that led to a ban on government use of its artificial intelligence technology.
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Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback: Take our Survey New Window By Jen Judson May 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTC A federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic ’s bid to block the Pentagon from declaring that the company poses a supply-chain risk to US national security, a move that led to a ban on government use of its artificial intelligence technology.
At a hearing Tuesday in Washington, two of the three judges on the panel peppered Anthropic’s attorney with questions about his claim that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the declaration illegally in March, following a dispute over how the company’s Claude AI chatbot would be used by the military.
