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What jumps out to me is not that Anthropic won a legal skirmish. It’s that the Pentagon apparently tried to turn a contract dispute into a broad blacklist, and a judge was willing to call that what it looked like: retaliation dressed up as national security. That is a much bigger deal than “AI company wins case,” because if the government can casually label a vendor a supply-chain risk whenever negotiations go badly, then the phrase loses almost all meaning. I also think the factual pattern here

If the Reddit thread is pointing at a real blacklist story, that matters more than the usual “AI company drama” headline. For people building on Claude or Claude Code, government and defense access can shape where models get deployed, what contracts Anthropic can win, and how much friction surrounds enterprise adoption. The source points to a Reddit post about Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon. The article metadata shown here does not include the actual Reddit text, so the underlying c