San Francisco Federal Court District Judge Rita Lin has given Anthropic until 6 p.m. PST Tuesday to provide a declaration stating that multiple government agencies have terminated or ceased the use of Anthropic’s Claude model following the U.S. Department of Defense’s designation of the company as a national security risk.
The live virtual court hearing noted that the Office of Personnel Management, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as well as several other agencies terminated its use of Anthropic technology.
Attorneys for the DOD have until 6 p.m. tomorrow to provide counter-evidence to this claim.
Anthropic asked Lin to temporarily halt the DOD decision to blacklist its AI model, Claude, as well as President Donald Trump’s order prohibiting federal agencies from using the technology, CNBC reported.
The artificial intelligence company stated that the blacklist is causing “severe, immediate and irreparable financial and reputational harm to the company.”
The DOD continues to argue its case that Anthropic poses a national security supply chain risk. The artificial intelligence company filed a lawsuit against the DOD earlier this month, escalating its ongoing clash with the Trump administration.
Last week, in the ongoing lawsuit, the DOD flagged new national security risks tied …
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