Trump's bid to blacklist Anthropic as national security threat suffers major court setback

A federal judge handed artificial intelligence company Anthropic a major legal victory Thursday, halting the Trump administration's designation of the company as a national security supply-chain risk and ruling the government had trampled First Amendment protections in an act of political retribution.

U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California ordered the administration to stop applying President Donald Trump's directive barring federal agencies from using Anthropic's AI technology...