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Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon's Blacklist of Anthropic in 2-1 Ruling

A federal appeals court just told Anthropic that its own safety features are the reason it can’t sell AI to the Pentagon. In a 2-1 decision handed down Friday, Sept 25, the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC upheld the Defense Department’s blacklisting of the AI startup, siding with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a fight that has now cost Anthropic billions of dollars in lost contracts and scrambled one of the most important commercial relationships in military AI. ...

September 27, 2026 · 5 min · 992 words ·