A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon's attempt to blacklist Anthropic, ruling that the Trump administration's designation of the company as a national security risk was unconstitutional retaliation. US district judge Rita Lin vacated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's February 27 decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk," which would have made the company ineligible for federal contracts. Lin also lifted a punitive measure preventing military contractors from doing business with Anthropic, calling Hegseth's actions "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and otherwise not in accordance with law."