Pentagon ban of Anthropic faces judge; Claude AI maker seeks injunction

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.Anthropic heads to San Francisco federal court on Tuesday to ask a judge to temporarily pause the Pentagon's blacklisting of its Claude artificial intelligence models and President Donald Trump's directive banning federal government agencies from using that technology. If the preliminary injunction is awarded, the AI startup will be able to continue doing business with g ...