Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's designation of an AI company as a supply chain risk was illegal retaliation and a violation of constitutional protections. The designation ordered all federal agencies to stop working with the company after it refused to remove safety guardrails that would have allowed the Pentagon to use its models for fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The judge found the government's broad measures were "baseless" and that invoking national security cannot be used to punish critics of the government. A separate lawsuit filed by the company in Washington, D.C. remains ongoing.