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A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

WIRED — AI · August 28, 2026 · International · Privacy Law

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”

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