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A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government had punished the artificial intelligence company for publicly criticizing the Pentagon.

Normally, you’d imagine huge megacorporations having a personal army of the best lawyers in the world who can spin anything in their favor. You’d certainly think that would be the case for 3M, the industrial conglomerate that got away with permanently poisoning our planet with “forever chemicals.”

In a decision of first impression in Massachusetts, a judge in the Business Litigation Session of the Superior Court ruled that material generated by an artificial intelligence tool, or “AI output,” is not protected under the work product doctrine unless performed for or at the direction of counsel.