It's Thursday, March 27th, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Pescott.

And a U.S. district judge, Rita Lynn, on Thursday, ruled in favor of Anthropic, which had

sued the Pentagon in their attempt to designate them a supply chain risk because the Pentagon

was trying to punish Anthropic

for not building all the weapon systems.

It wanted the judge called the administration's moves Orwellian, somewhere Orwell's

saying, I was a wordsmith.

You should come up with some better adjectives.

The judge also said at bottom, Anthropic has shown that these broad punitive measures were

likely unlawful

and that it's suffering irreparable harm from them. You know why the judge made that ruling?

Well, because the Pentagon just did a knee-jerk action which never really intended to satisfy

the law. But on a simpler level, what Anthropic did was they argued in court,

they presented a case, they saw a laughable ruling, and did more than laugh at it. Now I should

disclose that Anthropic is a sponsor of the gist. You hear the ads for Claude on the gist. I don't

think that at all influences what I think of Anthropic. I was just thinking of them as a responsible

company with a lot at stake who brings to the table all they can to argue their case.

Let us now contrast that to the concluded trial in Prairieland, Texas, which after a day

and a half of testimony, the defendants

weren't found guilty of all charges, but all were found guilty of serious charges, and

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