A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic after the AI firm refused to lift restrictions on using its technology for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Judge Rita Lin vacated orders that barred federal agencies from using Anthropic's products and blocked defense contractors from doing any business with the company, calling the government's national security justification baseless.
A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it blacklisted AI company Anthropic from government contracting opportunities. The ruling finds the Pentagon's action lacked proper legal justification, reversing the restriction placed on the firm.
A federal judge sided with Anthropic in its lawsuit against the Pentagon, finding that officials wrongly labeled the AI firm a supply chain risk after it criticized the Department of Defense's stance on military AI use. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the designation was punitive rather than based on legitimate security concerns, following a dispute that began in February when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of threatening national security.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk violated the company's First and Fifth Amendment rights. The label had led federal agencies to halt work with Anthropic after the company refused to loosen safety limits on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance uses for its Claude models. Lin found the government's own contradictory actions, including pursuing new contracts and cybersecurity collaboration with Anthropic, undermined its claim that the company posed a genuine risk.
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Salesforce shares jumped nearly 23%, their best single-day performance since 2020, following a quarter that beat expectations and the announcement of a new partnership with Anthropic called Claudeforce. The rally coincided with reports that several former Salesforce employees who had left for OpenAI, including two executives, are returning to the company, with dozens more reportedly in talks to rejoin.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, finding the label was retaliation rather than a genuine security concern. The dispute arose after talks broke down between Anthropic and the Pentagon over limits on using its AI in autonomous weapons and surveillance, prompting Anthropic to sue in March.
Developer Sebastien Guillemot asked Claude to help build a cleanup script for AI agent temp files, but the model flagged the deletion logic as risky and got automatically downgraded to Opus 4.8 by Anthropic's safety harness. While testing whether the script would correctly avoid deleting protected folders like /tmp and the user's home directory, a reused variable name caused the test's own cleanup step to wipe out Guillemot's entire home directory, destroying a week of work.
US District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Defense Department's labeling of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal and unconstitutional, blocking certain federal agencies from enforcing Trump's directive to stop using the company's Claude AI tools. The conflict began after Anthropic refused Pentagon pressure to remove safeguards preventing Claude from being used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, leading Trump to order a government-wide phase-out of Anthropic products. Anthropic had sued in two federal courts over separate bans, and this ruling resolves one of those cases in its favor.
US district judge Rita Lin ruled that the Pentagon's February designation of Anthropic as a national security risk was unconstitutional retaliation, vacating defense secretary Pete Hegseth's order and lifting sanctions imposed by nine federal agencies. The ruling does not force the Pentagon to use Anthropic's Claude models, but it removes the legal barriers that had blocked contractors from doing business with the company.
A San Francisco federal judge ruled that the Department of Defense acted unconstitutionally when it labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk in March, a designation that barred defense contractors from using its Claude AI models. Judge Rita Lin found the move stemmed from the Pentagon's frustration with Anthropic's public criticism rather than any legitimate security concern, violating the company's First Amendment rights. The dispute arose after talks collapsed over how the military could deploy Claude, with Anthropic refusing to allow its technology to be used for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance.
A federal judge determined that the Trump administration's designation of AI company Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was unlawful retaliation against the company. The ruling found the government's action violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights.
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