Federal Judge Strikes Down Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklisting as Illegal

US District Judge Rita Lin ruled August 27 in San Francisco that the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was illegal and baseless. The 59-page ruling barred agencies from enforcing Trump's order to drop Claude. Lin wrote that "the empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics." Anthropic won one of two challenges; the second designation remains pending.