# Judge rules Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic

https://mins.news/en/item/35210

- BBC News, 2026-08-28 03:41 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2q7z5mlrmo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> A US judge ruled that the Department of Defense acted unlawfully by labeling AI startup Anthropic a supply-chain risk and ordering military contractors to boycott it. The judge called the move “illegal and baseless”, saying national security is not a blank check to punish government critics. Anthropic had resisted military use of its models for surveillance and autonomous weapons.

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