Federal Judge Blocks Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic, Calling It 'Illegal and Baseless'

A US judge struck down the Defense Department's designation blocking Anthropic, a rare and pointed rebuke that reframes the tension between AI labs and their would-be government customers.

A US judge has blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, calling the designation "illegal and baseless," according to @DreyXAI, whose roundup surfaced the ruling alongside the day's model releases. The language is unusually sharp for a procurement dispute — courts rarely brand a federal agency's action both illegal and baseless in the same breath.

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