Trump Officials Fire Back at Anthropic Over AI Tool Ban (3)

March 18, 2026, 2:04 AM UTC

The Trump administration vowed a legal fight to oust Anthropic PBC from all US government agencies following a dispute over how the company’s artificial intelligence technology would be used.

“For national security reasons, the terms of service for plaintiff Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology have become unacceptable to the Executive Branch,” the US Justice Department, which is representing the government, said Tuesday in a court filing.

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, sued to block a declarationby the Defense Department that the company posed a risk to the US supply chain, escalating a high-stakes dispute over ...

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