According to CoinMeta, on October 26th, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal seeking to reinstate the federal ban against Anthropic. The following day, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced an expansion of its partnership with Anthropic, allowing government agencies to use Claude at a 40% discount, with a pay-per-use model and no minimum consumption requirements. Currently, about 500 U.S. federal, state, and local government organizations are using Claude, and the usage of Claude by federal civilian agencies has increased by about 20 times over the past year.