Judge rules Trump administration illegally punished Anthropic

A judge has blocked the Trump administration from blacklisting artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Earlier this year, President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's Claude AI assistant. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also declared the company a supply chain risk. These moves came after the co

A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government punished the company in a row over military use of its technology. Anthropic infuriated Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth in February by insisting its techno

A ruling in the first of two lawsuits filed against the government by Anthropic found the Trump administration acted outside the law.

“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” Judge Rita Lin wrote in her ruling.

The ruling is a major victory for the AI firm in its legal wranglings with Washington.

US court rules Pentagon ban of Anthropic unlawful  euractiv.com

'The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.'

Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply-chain risk’ could cost billions ‌in lost business ‌and reputational harm A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the AI fir

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 unlawfull

A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling that the government's actions violated Anthropic's constitutional rights. Why it matters: The ruling marks a major legal victory for Anthropic in its months-long fight with the Trump administration over how t

The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.

Trump Administration Illegally Cut Farmworkers' Wages, Judge Rules  HuffPost

The Department of Labor's efforts to address labor shortages and cut costs failed to consider U.S. workers, the judge said.