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title: "Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-was-illegally-blacklisted-by-the-trump-administration-court-v06a4d38d
published: 2026-08-28T03:14:06.000Z
byline: "Source: The Verge AI"
---

# Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

Source: The Verge AI · Published 2026-08-28 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-was-illegally-blacklisted-by-the-trump-administration-court-v06a4d38d

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting "red \[…\]

In this story: [Trump administration](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/trump-administration), [Department of Defense](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/department-of-defense)

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985947/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-lawsuit-judge-ruling)

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