Judge strikes down Anthropic blacklist, says government retaliated over Pentagon criticism
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What just happened? A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to rescind its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling that the government violated the AI company's First Amendment rights. The decision found the designation was not supported by evidence of a genuine national-security threat and instead stemmed from Anthropic's objections to Pentagon plans for using its AI models.
US District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled late Thursday that the government failed to show Anthropic posed a national-security threat. Instead, she found that officials acted against the company after it publicly challenged the Pentagon's plans for using AI.
"Defendants' contemporaneous words and deeds confirm that the challenged actions were based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its 'arrogance' in criticizing the government," Lin wrote.
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