Federal Judge Rules Trump's Blacklisting of Anthropic Illegal

<p>A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, vacating government directives against the use of the firm's AI technology. The ruling, issued by Judge Rita Lin in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, stated that the government retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk to national security.</p><p>The court found that Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI technology, was barred from operating in the US after it refused to remove restrictions on the use of its products for lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans. Judge Lin noted, "The undisputed record shows that the challenged actions constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment," in an order that granted key portions of Anthropic's motion for summary judgment.</p>