Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic struck down as illegal retaliation, judge rules
In a chilling legal defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon’s attempt to blacklist AI firm Anthropic was an act of unlawful retaliation. Anthropic refused to let the government use its Claude chatbot for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons development. The judge ruled that the Trump Administration was using the excuse of national security as “an empty blank check to punish critics.”
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