Federal Judge Overturns Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Blacklisting of Anthropic
A federal court has permanently blocked the Department of Defense from enforcing a supply chain risk designation against artificial intelligence developer Anthropic, ruling that the Pentagon's blacklisting violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California issued a 59-page decision overturning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's February 2026 classification. The ruling makes permanent an injunction granted earlier t
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