# Federal Court: Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional Retaliation

Two hard limits were what Anthropic refused to give up in its dealings with the Pentagon: it would not enable mass surveillance of Americans, and it would not build lethal autonomous weapons. The consequence was a supply chain risk designation, a label typically reserved for actual national security

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| Published | 30 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/federal-court-pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic-was-unconstitutional-retaliation/