Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year.

“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.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing th

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

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