
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 …