{"id":68823,"date":"2026-03-12T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:59:34","slug":"microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has thrown its weight behind Anthropic\u2019s legal challenge against the Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/72379655\/32\/anthropic-pbc-v-us-department-of-war\/\">amicus brief<\/a> submitted to a federal court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> this week, Microsoft, which integrates Anthropic\u2019s AI tools into systems it provides to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a>, argued that a temporary restraining order was necessary to prevent serious disruption to suppliers whose products rely on the AI company\u2019s technology. Google, Amazon, Apple and OpenAI have also signed on to a brief in support of Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/12\/microsoft-amicus-brief-anthropic-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation Microsoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic\u2019s legal challenge against the Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company\u2019s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work. In an amicus brief &#8230; <a title=\"Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}