Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

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In her Anthropic ruling, Judge Rita Lin said the ‘empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics’. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters View image in fullscreen In her Anthropic ruling, Judge Rita Lin said the ‘empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics’. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Technology Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions ‌of dollars in lost business ‌and reputational harm

Prefer the Guardian on Google A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government had punished the artificial intelligence company for publicly criticising the Pentagon.

“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” Judge Rita Lin said in a 59-page decision.

She barred the federal agencies named in the lawsuit from enforcing President Donald Trump’s order to stop using the tools of Anthropic – creator of the Claude AI models – and overturned defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of the company as a “supply chain risk”, a status previously reserved for foreign firms.

The ruling makes permanent the temporary suspension of sanctions ordered by the judge in March and takes effect immediately. The government may appeal.