Anthropic wins First Amendment ruling against Department of War

Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Department of War’s designation of the company as a “supply chain risk,” per Chat GPT Is Eating the World, which obtained the opinion. The designation followed a Trump administration order directing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI, after Anthropic said it opposed the military’s use of its models for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. Judge Lin had already granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction against the designation earlier this year.