# Anthropic to Court: We Literally Cannot Manipulate Our Own AI - Date: 2026-04-23 - Category: Artificial Intelligence Anthropic lost a $200M Pentagon contract and OpenAI took it. Now Anthropic is arguing to a federal appeals court that its Claude AI is built so that no one — not even Anthropic — can manipulate it once deployed in classified military networks. Oral arguments are May 19. ---