Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk

A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic (an AI company) as a supply chain risk (a threat to national security in supplier networks) was illegal because it violated free speech protections. The blacklisting happened after Anthropic refused to give the military unrestricted access to its Claude AI model without safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, and the judge found the Pentagon penalized the company mainly for criticizing the government's AI policies rather than for any concrete security problem.