Good news in the battle between the federal government and the AI company Anthropic: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Department of Defense from declaring Anthropic a "supply chain risk," which would have barred any federal agency or contractor from doing business with the company.
The government's "conduct appears to be driven not by a desire to maintain operational control when using AI in the military but by a desire to make an example of Anthropic for its public stance on the weighty issues at stake in the contracting dispute," wrote U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in an order granting Anthropic's motion for preliminary injunction.
