US Judge Blocks Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic, Calls It Illegal
A US federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal and baseless, blocking the designation. The ruling, in a lawsuit filed in March, found the supply-chain risk label was unconstitutional retaliation for Anthropic's AI safety 'red lines' on military use.
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Jack Queen / Reuters : A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
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On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting "red lines," or unacceptable military use cases of its AI technology. "The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Rita F. Lin, a district judge in the northern district of California, wrote in the ruling … Read the full story at The Verge.
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A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.