Virtue-signaling Anthropic dodges Pentagon blacklist - But can’t shake its Palantir shadow A US federal judge has added a new twist to Anthropic’s ethical guardrails grandstanding against Pentagon AI. In Anthropic's lawsuit in California federal court, the judge blocked the US War Department’s attempt to blacklist Anthropic. The Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk was ruled “illegal and baseless.