Trump Administration Orders Anthropic to Unblock Supplier Amid First Amendment Violation
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The Trump administration violated Anthropic’s First Amendment rights when it blacklisted the artificial-intelligence company earlier this year, a federal judge ruled late Thursday.
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CNBCA federal judge in California on Thursday ruled that the Pentagon's effort to blacklist Anthropic earlier this year violated the First Amendment and deprived the artificial intelligence company of its constitutionally protected liberties.
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U.S. District Judge Rita Lin vacated Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and declared that the Department of Defense's actions violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Lin directed the DOD to rescind all guidance, directives, communications or instructions that it issued against the company.
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MarketWatchU.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California said in her decision that the government had illegally retaliated against Anthropic, deeming it a supply-chain risk “for constitutionally protected expressive activities.”
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"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," the judge wrote in her ruling in San Francisco federal court. This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.
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BBC BusinessUS district judge Rita Lin said in the ruling that citing national security "is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics".
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01 ZeroHedge Amid ongoing global oil supply disruptions due to the Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis, and also as Ukraine's war on Russian oil refineries and export terminals heats up, the Trump administration has been scrambling to tap new reliable and long-term energy sources.
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02 Bloomberg Venezuela Considers Leaving OPEC in Blow to Oil Cartel (Video)
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03 Financial Times Anthropic wins legal battle with Pentagon in California Federal judge rules Trump administration cannot punish AI lab in clash over military use of its models
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04 BBC Business Published A judge has ruled the US Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it designated artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic a supply chain risk, calling the move "illegal and baseless".
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