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A court has ruled that the Trump administration can blacklist Anthropic after the company refused to enable certain Claude features sought by the government. Judges reasoned that "overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, siding with the administration's push for greater access to AI capabilities for national security purposes. The decision highlights escalating tension between AI developers' safety commitments and government demands for unrestricted access to frontier models, and could set a precedent for how courts treat disputes between AI labs and federal agencies.