Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
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.
She also wrote that the actions were “unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment,” adding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk “was arbitrary and capricious. Though the Department of War is undisputedly free to select the AI vendor of its choice, the...
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