Judge rejects Pentagon's attempt to 'cripple' Anthropic

Anthropic won a legal ruling preventing the Pentagon from immediately stopping government use of its AI tools like Claude after the company refused contract terms it worried could enable mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. A federal judge found the government's actions appeared to be retaliation for Anthropic's free speech concerns rather than genuine security issues, since officials publicly criticized the company as 'woke' rather than citing specific technical risks.