Anthropic urges court in Washington, DC, to rehear appeal of Pentagon blacklisting

Anthropic has petitioned a federal court in Washington, D.C. to rehear its appeal against the Pentagon's blacklisting of its Claude AI models, which the Defense Department labeled a national-security supply chain risk due to Anthropic's refusal to allow military use for mass surveillance or lethal autonomous weapons. The Pentagon's designation blocked defense contractors from using Anthropic's technology, and a prior court ruling upheld this ban despite Anthropic's claims of retaliation for its