San Francisco, United States: A California judge has set the stage for a potential victory for Anthropic in its push for regulation of weapons powered by artificial intelligence, a drawback for the administration of United States President Donald Trump, which brings the company a step closer to not losing billions in government contracts.The Trump administration had designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” for its stance on increased regulation, a move that would block the company from certain military contracts.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe United States Department of Defense may be illegally trying to punish Anthropic for attempting to restrict the use of its artificial intelligence (AI) models for weapons without human supervision or for mass surveillance, a district judge has said.“It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Judge Rita Lin of the Northern California district court said on Tuesday.Legal analysts say this could set the stage for providing Anthropic a preliminary injunction from being labelled a supply chain risk by the Defense Department.“Their stated objectives are not completely backed by the Department of War,” Charlie Bullock, senior research fellow at the Institute for Law and AI, a Boston-based think tank, said about the Defense Department’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk.This is the first time a US company has been designated as such and it would entail cancelling government contracts as well as those …
