A US judge Thursday blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, dealing a setback to the US military in its high-stakes dispute with the maker of Claude over restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare.

Link to: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/

The judge ruled that the Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic stemmed from a “desire to make a public example out of Anthropic” for its criticism of the government.