Trump Administrationβs Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules NYT: Technology By: Sheera Frenkel 27 August 2026 at 22:28 The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up βfor constitutionally protected expressive activities,β a federal judge in California wrote. Β© Karsten Moran for The New York TimesAnthropic, led by Dario Amodei, was barred from government work after it insisted that its technology not be used in mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.