A U.S. federal judge weighing the merits of the Pentagon’s designation of rising Silicon Valley star Anthropic as a security threat repeatedly questioned the government’s reasons for vilifying the company following a dispute over how its artificial intelligence technology can be used in war OpenAI sweetens private equity pitch amid enterprise turf war with Anthropic, sources sayDuring a 90-minute hearing in San Francisco federal court, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin probed into why U.S. President Donald Trump's administration took the extraordinary step of denouncing Anthropic as a supply chain risk after balking at the company's attempt to prevent its AI…