{"slug": "u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting", "title": "U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting", "summary": "A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of the Claude maker as a national security supply-chain risk was \"illegal and baseless.\" U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a 59-page order in California federal court, writing that \"the empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.", "body_md": "Jack Queen, Reuters:\n\nA U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.\n\nAnthropic’s lawsuit in California federal court alleges that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk, a label the government can apply to companies that expose military systems to potential infiltration or sabotage by adversaries. [...]\n\nU.S. District Judge Rita Lin, an appointee of former Democratic President Joe Biden, made the ruling in a 59-page order where she found that the Pentagon’s decision was “illegal and baseless.”\n\n“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” she wrote.\n\nThe imperial aspects of Trump 2.0 are increasingly coming apart at the seams.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting", "canonical_source": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/", "published_at": "2026-08-28 02:59:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 03:18:00.645750+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Pete Hegseth", "Rita Lin", "Pentagon", "U.S. District Court"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-defense-departments-anthropic-blacklisting.jsonld"}}