A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from labeling Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and cutting off the artificial intelligence firm’s access to federal contracts.
US District Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction, finding that the Trump administration’s “broad punitive measures” against the company “were likely unlawful” and could “cripple Anthropic.”
“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the US for expressing disagreement with the government,” Lin wrote in her ruling.
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The dispute centers on the Pentagon’s demand to use Anthropic’s Claude AI for “all lawful purposes,” while Anthropic wanted to prohibit the military from using it for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons
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