Judge Calls US Government Ban on Anthropic AI ‘Troubling’

A judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s rationale for banning the federal government from using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC, a move that the Claude chatbot maker claims could cost it billions in lost revenue.

During a hearing Tuesday in San Francisco, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said it was “troubling” that the Defense Department had designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a label normally used to describe US adversaries. Lin said the decision by the government doesn’t appear to be “tailored to the stated national security concern.”