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A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked two Trump administration actions against Anthropic
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The Pentagon's move to label the AI company a supply chain risk and President Donald Trump's directive telling federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology, including the chatbot Claude
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U.S. District Judge Rita Lynn issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, pausing those measures while the case proceeds
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In her order, Lynn wrote that the government's actions appeared arbitrary and capricious
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and said the authority had typically been used against foreign adversaries, not American companies
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The case centers on how the military could use Anthropik's AI tools
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NPR and AP reported that Anthropik said it would not allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons
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or to surveil American citizens, while the Pentagon argued the military should decide
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how to use tools it buys from contractors. Lynn wrote that if the concern were the chain of command
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the Pentagon could simply stop using Claude. Instead, she wrote, the measures appeared intended to punish Anthropic
