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Judge Blocks Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from labeling Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and cutting off the artificial intelligence firm’s access to federal contracts. US District Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction, finding that the Trump administration’s “broad punitive measures” against the company “were likely unlawful” and could “cripple Anthropic.” “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the US for expressing disagreement with the government,” Lin wrote in her ruling. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) The dispute centers on the Pentagon’s demand to use Anthropic’s Claude AI for “all lawful purposes,” while Anthropic wanted to prohibit the military from using it for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons systems. After Anthropic refused to meet the government’s demands, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said they would declare …

“Hollywood Left and the Blacklist“ Locarno Film Festival Retrospective

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The “Red Scare” and the infamous Hollywood blacklist of the McCarthy era will be the timely topics of the retrospective at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Under the title Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, the Swiss festival’s Retrospettiva, once again curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, will put the spotlight on “one of the most turbulent and politically charged periods in the history of American cinema.” Last year, the festival revisited the “Great Expectations” of British postwar cinema. This year, it focuses on a politicized time in Hollywood postwar history. During the period from 1947 to the early 1960s, Hollywood professionals suspected of communist ties faced a crackdown. Produced in partnership with the Cinémathèque Suisse and with the support of UCLA Film & Television Archive, the program will paint “a complex portrait of an era in which creatives were confronted by unprecedented abuse of state and industry power and which they met, courageously, with fierce artistic resistance,” Locarno highlighted. “As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union swelled into a defining feature of world politics, right-wing voices in the American political system alleged …

Anthropic rolls out Code Review for Claude Code as it sues over Pentagon blacklist and partners with Microsoft

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Anthropic on Monday released Code Review, a multi-agent code review system built into Claude Code that dispatches teams of AI agents to scrutinize every pull request for bugs that human reviewers routinely miss. The feature, now available in research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, arrives on what may be the most consequential day in the company’s history: Anthropic simultaneously filed lawsuits against the Trump administration over a Pentagon blacklisting, while Microsoft announced a new partnership embedding Claude into its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform. The convergence of a major product launch, a federal legal battle, and a landmark distribution deal with the world’s largest software company captures the extraordinary tension defining Anthropic’s current moment. The San Francisco-based AI lab is simultaneously trying to grow a developer tools business approaching $2.5 billion in annualized revenue, defend itself against an unprecedented government designation as a national security threat, and expand its commercial footprint through the very cloud platforms now navigating the fallout. Code Review is Anthropic’s most aggressive bet yet that engineering organizations will pay significantly more …

Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over ‘woke AI’ concerns : NPR

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A 2011 file photo of the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense. STAFF/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption STAFF/AFP via Getty Images Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company’s refusal to loosen its safety standards. The threat came on Tuesday during a meeting between Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly. While both sides agreed Hegseth vowed to punish Anthropic for not bending to the administration’s demands, accounts of what exactly the threat was vary. One person close to the discussion said Hegseth dangled the possibility of canceling Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Defense Department, while a Pentagon official said repercussions could include forcing Anthropic to allow the federal government to use its AI tools against its will and blacklisting the company from receiving future work with the U.S. military. For months, Amodei has insisted that using AI for domestic mass …

EU moves to blacklist Iran’s enforcer army – POLITICO

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One of the arguments against putting the Revolutionary Guard on the terror list was fear of potential reprisals. Iran has repeatedly used a strategy of arresting Europeans to use as bargaining chips in international diplomacy, including former EU official Johan Floderus, who was released from the notorious Evin Prison in 2024. Paris has secured the release from Evin of two of its nationals — Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris — who are now under house arrest at the French Embassy in Tehran. “We need to send a strong signal,” van Weel said. The Revolutionary Guard “is the glue and the backbone holding this regime together, directing most of the violence, being in charge of most of the economic activity, whilst the rest of the country is in poverty, so I think it’s a key enabler of the atrocities that we’ve seen happening not only in Iran but also in the region,” he added. Separately, ministers meeting Thursday are expected to approve asset freezes and visa bans on 21 Iranian individuals and entities over the human …

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