In a moment that tests the boundaries between national security and political retribution, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic was unlawful retaliation for the company's refusal to subordinate its ethical commitments to military imperatives. Judge Rita Lin found that invoking supply-chain risk statutes designed to guard against foreign sabotage — against an American company, for its speech — violated both the First and Fifth Amendments. The ruling raises a question that will outlast this case: in an age of powerful AI, who holds the moral aut