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world The Hindu 2026-03-27

U.S. Judge Blocks Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklisting for Now

A US judge has temporarily blocked the Pentagon's decision to blacklist AI company Anthropic due to its refusal to allow the military to use its AI chatbot for US surveillance or autonomous weapons.


U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth’s unprecedented move, ​which followed Anthropic’s refusal to allow the ‌military to use AI chatbot Claude for U.S. surveillance or autonomous weapons, blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts.

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