Judge blocks Pentagon order branding Anthropic a national security risk

A federal judge in San Francisco blocked a Pentagon order Thursday labeling the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security risk,
saying officials had likely violated the law and retaliated against the firm for speaking publicly about how it wanted its technology to be used.

“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,”
District Court Judge Rita F. Lin wrote.

The immediate practical implications of the ruling are unclear,
but it represents a clear victory for the AI lab, which has been involved in a bitter power struggle with the Defense Department over the use of its Claude system by the military.

Defense officials pushed the company to allow for the technology to be used for any lawful purpose,
but Anthropic wanted a bar on it being used in mass domestic surveillance and to power fully autonomous weapons.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/26/pentagon-anthropic-national-security-risk-order-blocked/

Blue Tit.

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There's a widespread myth that medieval people used spices to cover up the taste of rotten meat.

The whole story traces back to one book. In 1939, a scientist named J.C. Drummond published The Englishman's Food and suggested that medieval recipes were so heavily spiced because the meat was frequently tainted. No evidence. Just an assumption. One sentence in one book published 85 years ago.

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"uh oh, I've broken everything over here. You guys better come and fix it or you'll all be in deep trouble."

-US Foreign Policy

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