A federal judge in California on Thursday ruled that the Pentagon's effort to blacklist Anthropic earlier this year violated the First Amendment:
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin vacated Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and declared that the Department of Defense's actions violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment:
Lin directed the DOD to rescind all guidance, directives, communications or instructions that it issued against the company:
"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," the judge wrote in her ruling:
