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A US federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked Pentagon action against Anthropic, giving the AI company short-term relief in its fight with the Trump administration.  Summary Judge Rita Lin paused Pentagon action against Anthropic and blocked the federal Claude stop-use order. Anthropic sued after the Pentagon labeled it a supply chain risk during contract dispute talks. The ruling keeps pressure on Washington as Anthropic defends limits on military and surveillance use. The ruling keeps federal agencies from enforcing a stop-use order against Claude for now and places the legal focus on whether the government acted beyond its authority. Judge Rita Lin of the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday. The order stops the Pentagon from enforcing its supply chain risk label against Anthropic while the case moves forward. The ruling also pauses President Donald Trump’s directive that told federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude. The judge said the record did not support the government’s position at this stage of the case. Judge Lin wrote,  “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the US for expressing disagreement with the government.”  She also described the measures against Anthropic as “arbitrary, capricious, [and] an abuse of discretion.” The case follows a breakdown in talks between Anthropic and the Pentagon. In July 2025, the company had reached a deal that would have made Claude the first frontier AI model approved for use on classified networks. That process later changed course. Anthropic said Pentagon officials wanted the company to permit military use of Claude “for all lawful purposes” and without limits. The company refused to allow uses tied to lethal autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic…

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