U.S. federal appeals court rejects Anthropic’s request to pause the Department of Defense blacklist.

Gate News message. On April 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. dismissed Anthropic’s request to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Defense from placing it on a blacklist. The company is currently suing over these sanctions. Earlier, at the end of last month, a judge at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction in another related case, barring the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on the use of the Claude artificial intelligence model by the company.

In its ruling, the appeals court said: “We believe that the fair balance in this case favors the government. On the one hand, the risk of economic loss to a private company is relatively smaller; on the other hand, during a military conflict, how and through whom the Department of War obtains critical artificial intelligence technology needs oversight by the judiciary. Therefore, we deny Anthropic’s motion to stay execution, pending review of the merits of the case.”