U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts because the company refused to allow the U.S. to use its Claude AI models for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. Anthropic sued in California court.

Anthropic won a federal court ruling against the Pentagon after being labeled a supply-chain risk for refusing military AI use without ethical

The statement marks a remarkable turnaround in a relationship strained by a bitter fight over national security and AI safeguards.