{"id":21790,"date":"2026-04-24T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/anthropic-seeks-to-debunk-pentagons-claims-about-its-control-over-ai-technology-in-military-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:20:27","slug":"anthropic-seeks-to-debunk-pentagons-claims-about-its-control-over-ai-technology-in-military-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/anthropic-seeks-to-debunk-pentagons-claims-about-its-control-over-ai-technology-in-military-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic seeks to debunk Pentagon&#8217;s claims about its control over AI technology in military systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1776901527000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Anthropic on Wednesday told an appeals court that it can&rsquo;t manipulate its artificial intelligence tool Claude once it is deployed in classified Pentagon military networks &mdash; an assertion aimed at debunking the Trump administration&rsquo;s attempt to brand the rapidly growing <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pentagon-ai-anthropic-claude-dario-amodei-openai-d4608c7dd139245ac8ad94d5427c505a\">technology company as a supply chain risk. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement made as part of 96-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. provided a glimpse at the arguments that Anthropic&rsquo;s lawyers intend to make as part of <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthropic-trump-pentagon-hegseth-ai-104c6c39306f1adeea3b637d2c1c601b\">a lawsuit filed last month<\/a><\/span>  in the fallout of a contract dispute over how AI technology can be used in <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-anthropic-pentagon-golden-dome-autonomous-weapons-6f3c45ff46172c1bf8658dea0098f3fe\">fully autonomous weapons<\/a><\/span>  and potential surveillance of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Anthropic contends the Pentagon is illegally retaliating against it by stigmatizing it with a designation meant to protect against sabotage of national security systems by foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthropic-security-risk-trump-artificial-intelligence-8478be7d5e275dee43d9814ebb2a69d3\">the appeals court rejected<\/a><\/span>  Anthropic&rsquo;s request for an order that would have blocked the Pentagon&rsquo;s actions while the panel is still collecting evidence about the case.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&rsquo;s new filing is meant to directly address some of the court&rsquo;s questions ahead of oral arguments scheduled for May 19. The Trump administration will have an opportunity to file its response before that hearing. <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&rsquo;s temporary setback in the Washington case came after it <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pentagon-ai-anthropic-claude-judge-637d07aca9e480294380be0da1d0a514\">already had prevailed<\/a><\/span>  in a separate case focused on the same issues in San Francisco federal court. That decision prompted the Trump administration to remove the stigmatizing labels from Anthropic, according court filings.<\/p>\n<p>But the lack of a similar order in the parallel case in Washington continues to cast a cloud over Anthropic, whose AI tools have turned it into a rising tech star along with rival OpenAI. After the Pentagon canceled a $200 million contract with Anthropic in the wake of their disagreement, OpenAI struck a deal to provide its technology to the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-anthropic-trump-security-risk-f9e693ea9954e6a8ac75750f1089f768\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Anthropic on Wednesday told an appeals court that it can&rsquo;t manipulate its artificial intelligence tool Claude once it is deployed in classified Pentagon military networks &mdash; an assertion aimed at debunking the Trump administration&rsquo;s attempt to brand the rapidly growing technology company as a supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}