{"id":6211,"date":"2026-08-28T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:13:50","slug":"judge-pentagon-punished-anthropic-for-arrogance-and-thats-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6211","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Pentagon punished Anthropic for \u2018arrogance,\u2019 and that\u2019s illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense\u2019s views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6209\">Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dispute between the AI company and the government broke out in February when President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of endangering national security and designated the company a supply chain risk. Anthropic CEO\u00a0Dario Amodei refused to back down\u00a0over concerns the company\u2019s products could be used for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lin wrote that the government\u2019s actions \u201cwere based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its \u2018arrogance\u2019 in criticizing the government, not based on any articulable basis to believe that Anthropic would actually sabotage its model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement that they welcome the judge\u2019s ruling: \u201cWe remain focused on working productively with the government to harness AI for our national security so all Americans benefit from this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the 59-page ruling, Lin, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, wrote that neither the Constitution nor the federal statute the government invoked allows them to \u201cimpose sweeping penalties based principally on Anthropic\u2019s critique of the Administration\u2019s views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u00a0sued the Pentagon\u00a0over the supply chain risk designation in March for what it called an \u201cunlawful campaign of retaliation\u201d over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The legal challenge intensified an unusually public dispute over how\u00a0AI can be used in warfare\u00a0and mass surveillance. Anthropic\u2019s primary tech industry rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, made its own deal to work with the Pentagon just hours after the government punished Anthropic for its stance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6207\">Bob and Brad D6 Pro Massage Gun Review in 2026: Tested and Approved<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthropic and OpenAI are each ramping up for\u00a0buzzy initial public offerings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthropic has also filed a separate and narrower case that is still pending in the\u00a0federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.\u00a0That case involves a different rule the Pentagon is using to try to declare Anthropic a supply chain risk.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the legal proceedings, Lin had temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk and blocked enforcement of\u00a0Trump\u2019s social media directive\u00a0ordering all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic and its chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a hearing July 30, Lin had said that the government\u2019s position was \u201creally troubling\u201d to her and that it seemed \u201cat odds to me with the First Amendment.\u201d She also said she believed the record had \u201cgotten worse for the government\u201d over time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In that same hearing, Department of Justice lawyers argued that the nature of AI models is \u201cso staggeringly enormous and opaque\u201d that the Defense Department cannot evaluate it in the same way it would a physical piece of hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic lawyer Michael Mongan said in that hearing that the government\u2019s actions \u201cprofoundly harm Anthropic\u201d and that they \u201cthreaten more broadly to chill speech and debate on a very important issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6204\">Bob &amp; Brad iMaster Pro 4D Massage Chair Review in 2026: Fortune Tested<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic has also filed a separate and narrower case that is still pending in the\u00a0federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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