Judge says government’s Anthropic ban looks like punishment

Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/AP

Patrick Sison/AP

A federal judge in San Francisco said on Tuesday the government’s ban on Anthropic looked like punishment after the AI company went public with its dispute with the Pentagon over the military’s potential uses of its artificial intelligence model, Claude.

U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin made the remark at the outset of a hearing about Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction in one of its lawsuits against the Pentagon, which has designated

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