US judge blocks Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as unlawful

A US federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal and baseless, finding it constituted unlawful retaliation over the company’s AI safety restrictions on military use. The decision removes an official barrier that had limited Anthropic’s access to certain US defence contracts. It sets a judicial precedent limiting the use of national-security designations against US AI firms over policy disagreements on model deployment.