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August 28, 2026

Judge finds Trump administration retaliated illegally against Anthropic

Also: TechCrunch catalogues incidents of AI agents autonomously conducting cyberattacks‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Friday 28 August 2026

Transformative AI
Judge finds Trump administration retaliated illegally against Anthropic
US District Judge Rita Lin ruled on Thursday night that the Trump administration acted illegally when it punished Anthropic for its stance on military use of its Claude AI models, in a decision the judge said The Hill described as finding the government's measures "illegal and baseless".

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