Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

A photo illustration featuring Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, President Donald Trump, and the Pentagon.

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 …

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