U.S. appeals court upheld the Pentagon/Trump administration’s blacklist designation targeting Anthropic over access to Claude features
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Two U.S. appeals court rulings left in place the Trump administration and Pentagon’s blacklist-related actions targeting Anthropic after the company declined to enable certain Claude features. The court decisions did not stop the restrictions, though one ruling required officials to balance risks related to constrained versus unconstrained AI model behavior for military use.