Anthropic asks full appeals court to revisit Pentagon national security ruling

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Anthropic asks full appeals court to revisit Pentagon national security ruling, according to Crypto Briefing. The case highlights tensions between national security concerns and constitutional rights, potentially impacting future AI industry regulations. The post Anthropic asks full appeals court to revisit Pentagon national security ruling appeared first on Crypto Briefing . Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

Anthropic official brand assets (anthropic.com) Anthropic asks full appeals court to revisit Pentagon national security ruling The Claude maker wants the entire D.C. 13, 2026 Anthropic is not done fighting the Pentagon.

On October 13, 2026, the AI company behind the Claude models asked the full US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case it lost in September.

The ruling it wants revisited lets the Defense Department keep treating a domestic AI developer as a national security risk. What Anthropic is asking for The filing is a petition for rehearing en banc.

That is the legal term for asking every active judge on the court to weigh in, rather than leaving the final word to the panel that heard the case. It sided with the Pentagon, which had labeled Anthropic a “supply chain risk” under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act, known as FASCSA. The designation landed around February or March 2026.