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Ars Technica · September 26, 2026 · On the brief until October 10, 2026

Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

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restricting military functions through internal safety rules

A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic after the company restricted Claude features for military operations. The judges decided that withholding software capabilities counts as a supply chain risk under federal law even without bad intent. Defense officials can now use procurement statutes to bar vendors that refuse to disable safety controls on national security software.

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