A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration’s case against Anthropic had “gotten worse,” sharply questioning whether officials labeled the AI company a national security threat because it had publicly criticized the government. Anthropic sued after the Pentagon designated it a national security supply chain risk and the administration moved to cut it off from federal work. Lin said she saw no evidence Anthropic could alter its AI models after delivery, flip a kill switch or seed them beforehand with a hidden control mechanism. Lin also questioned whether President Donald Trump had evidence that Anthropic posed a security threat when he first publicly targeted the company on Feb. 27. The Justice Department declined to say in open court whether any agencies had increased their use of Claude for national security work since the injunction.