Anthropic told a federal court it can't control its own model once deployed. That honest sentence changes the liability conversation.

In federal appeals court, Anthropic made a striking argument: once Claude is deployed on a customer's infrastructure (like the Pentagon's network), they cannot alter, update, or recall it. The Pentagon wants autonomous lethal action restrictions removed - and Anthropic says they have no mechanism to enforce those restrictions post-deployment. This is the first time a major AI lab has formally stated under oath that post-deployment control is effectively zero. The implications are bigger than most coverage suggests.