The Pentagon signaled it would label Anthropic a supply chain risk in February, after the lab refused to do mass surveillance and autonomous killing, and was banned from government use the next day.
Designating a company a supply chain risk bars it not only from use by the Pentagon, but from all contractors doing work for the Department of Defense (now War) and was a serious blow to Anthropic’s reputation and income, they argued.
The ruling was a scathing preliminary injunction, with the judge finding that «punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government’s contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.»
The court proceedings in the case itself move on, and is expected to take months, CNBC reports.
Read more: The ruling itself, CNBC, Reuters, and The Verge.