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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@mirandanazzaro
Miranda Nazzaro
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Breaking: California federal Judge Lin rules the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation for Anthropic is unlawful.
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
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There it is - Judge rules in Anthropic's favor in Pentagon Supply Chain Risk designation lawsuit. “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,"' the Judge wrote. https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...
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@patriciagbarnes
Patricia G. Barnes
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Apparently, Joe Biden nominated U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin knows more about national security than the Pentagon. She rules Secretary Hegseth's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk was “arbitrary and capricious.” ... US judge rules Pentagon
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@hugolowell
Hugo Lowell
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NEW @WIRED: US district judge Rita Lin finds that the Pentagon engaged in unconstitutional retaliation against Anthropic when it designated the company a supply chain risk — Lin vacates the designation https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
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@leomschwartz
Leo Schwartz
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Major ruling in one of Anthropic's cases against the Pentagon just came in where a federal judge finds that Secretary Hegseth's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk was “illegal and baseless” Full order here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
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@mikescarcella
Mike Scarcella
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“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Order -https://storage.courtlistener.com/ recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/ gov.uscourts.cand.465515.250.0.pdf
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Judge Rules Trump Administration's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal
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@x_is_arbitrary
Beercat Alexander
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@nytimes Nah. National security in within the bounds of DoW procurement code. This will be appealed and overturned. The US government needs to be able to filter out risks. That's why Huawei is not allowed (in the US or many Western nations infrastructure).
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@kimmasters
Kim Masters
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This administration keeps trying to use the First Amendment as toilet paper. — www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
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@robertscotthorton
Scott Horton
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Anthropic achieves a plenary victory over Hegseth and the Pentagon, as judge rules their measures against the firm were illegal and repressive.
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@emmajeankitty
Emma Jean Kitty
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Trump Administration's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules — The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote. — www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t... via @NYTimes
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US judge rules Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic unlawful
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Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk
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@kenbazinet
Ken Bazinet
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U.S. District Judge Rita Lin found that the Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk “based on a desire to make a public example” out of the company, CNBC reported.
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Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk
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@dearsarah
Sarah Szalavitz
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Trump Admin's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules — The government retaliated against the AI start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t... even if mostly moot (& obvious!), guess it's a necessary precedent for th…
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Trump Administration's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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A judge has declared that the Pentagon designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk because they wouldn't agree to allow Claude to be used to kill people was “illegal and baseless”. — Another loss for America's favorite DUI hire, Pete Hegseth.
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Debby Williams
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U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense's views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.
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@evangreer
Evan Greer
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This is good. Just like with the TikTok ban you can hate Anthropic and think it's an evil company that should cease to exist and still understand why it is a very very bad idea to let governments ban the distribution of software from developers who piss them off www.nytimes.com/…
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Trump Administration's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules