A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless" (Jack Queen/Reuters)

A U.S. district judge issued an injunction preventing the Pentagon from adding Anthropic to a blacklist, finding the agency’s claim that the AI firm posed a supply-chain risk to be illegal and without factual basis. The ruling halts the Department of Defense’s effort to restrict Anthropic’s technology on military networks.