A federal judge is blocking new restrictions on reporters at the Pentagon. A judge has temporarily blocked the Pentagon's move to label Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," giving the AI firm a temporary reprieve in its legal battle with the Department of Defense.

One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the fourteenth century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.