{"id":513366,"date":"2026-03-09T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513366\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:32:09","slug":"anthropic-sues-us-government-as-row-over-ai-use-by-military-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513366\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic sues US government as row over AI use by military deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab\u2019s high-stakes battle with the US military over usage restrictions on its technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic said in its lawsuit that the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights. The filing in federal court in California asked a judge to undo the designation and block federal \u200cagencies from enforcing it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese actions are unprecedented and unlawful. The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech,\u201d Anthropic said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Pentagon on Thursday slapped a formal supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic, limiting use of a technology that a source said was being used for military operations in Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic after the start-up refused to remove guardrails against using its AI for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. The two sides had been in increasingly contentious talks over those limitations for months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listens while travelling on Air Force One on Saturday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/91e53b86-b655-46fd-86d6-d1ac1ddffe59_a484c4f1.jpg\" title=\"US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listens while travelling on Air Force One on Saturday. Photo: AP\"\/>US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listens while travelling on Air Force One on Saturday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic officials said the lawsuit did not preclude reopening negotiations with the US government \u2060and reaching a settlement. The company has said it did not want to be fighting with the US government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[182,4613,60823,12300,23,223383,184,2356,232637,12,168,124974,801,1281,3,1283,5472,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-513366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-altman","11":"tag-amazon-com","12":"tag-america","13":"tag-amodei","14":"tag-anthropic","15":"tag-california","16":"tag-defence-department","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-google","19":"tag-hegseth","20":"tag-iran","21":"tag-microsoft","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-openai","24":"tag-pentagon","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}