A group of nearly 150 retired judges has joined the list of Anthropic's supporters in its fight with the Pentagon. In a brief filed on Tuesday, 149 retired federal and state judges said the Department of War's labeling of the AI company as a " supply chain risk " was unfounded. Anthropic is the creator of the Claude LLM. The judges wrote that the department "misinterpreted the statute and ignored the necessary procedures," and they were duty-bound to call the label unlawful. "More fundamentally,