A US federal judge has temporarily halted a ban imposed by the Trump administration on the use of AI technologies developed by Anthropic, after the company warned the restrictions could cost it billions in lost revenue.
According to Bloomberg, US District Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary ruling pausing the government’s plan to cut all ties with Anthropic, as the legal battle continues in federal court in San Francisco.
In her decision, Lin questioned the rationale behind the ban on the company, which developed the AI application Claude, indicating that the restrictions do not appear to serve US national security interests and instead seem aimed at penalizing the company.
Lin ordered a seven-day delay in enforcing the ruling to allow the government time to appeal.
Anthropic filed the lawsuit earlier this month seeking to overturn a decision by the US Department of Defense, which labeled the company a risk to US supply chains, escalating an ongoing dispute over military use of AI technologies.
The startup is also seeking assurances that its AI tools will not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in the development of autonomous weapons.
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