New Court Filing Reveals Pentagon Told Anthropic The Two Sides Were Nearly Aligned — A Week After Trump Declared The Relationship Kaput
Anthropic's court filings reveal a Pentagon email saying both sides were "very close" — days after Trump cut ties with the AI company over national se
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New Court Filing Reveals Pentagon Told Anthropic The Two Sides Were Nearly Aligned — A Week After Trump Declared The Relationship Kaput
Anthropic vs Pentagon: The Emails That Change Everything A single email is now at the center of one of the most explosive legal battles in artificial intelligence history. Days after the Trump administration declared Anthropic a national security threat and cut ties with the company, a top Pentagon official was privately telling Anthropic's CEO the two sides were "very close" on the very issues being used to justify that designation. That contradiction is now sworn court evidence — and it raises serious questions about what this dispute is really about. The Lawsuit Nobody Saw Coming When President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly announced they were severing ties with Anthropic in late February 2026, the story seemed straightforward: an AI company had refused to cooperate with the military, and the government had walked away. The Pentagon applied a supply-chain risk designation to Anthropic — the first time such a label had ever been used against an America…
