Judge rules Anthropic supply chain risk designation was ‘illegal and baseless’
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ByAlexandra Kelley,
Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW
August 28, 2026 11:00 AM ET
A Northern California judge found that the AI company’s products did not represent a meaningful threat to national security, making the Pentagon’s designation “unlawful retaliation.”
Anthropic secured a legal victory in its case against the Department of Defense for designating the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year, a move that hindered the company’s ability to work with government clients and compete economically.
In a ruling released Thursday evening, Judge Rita Lin of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California sided with Anthropic following a dispute between the company and the Pentagon over how its technology was used in agency missions, specifically those involving mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry.
“Though the Department of War is undisputedly free to select the AI...
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