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Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

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“The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.”

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Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration.
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The laws designating Anthropic had to be challenged in separate courts. A federal judge in San Francisco tossed out one of the supply-chain risk labels in March, but Friday's ruling means the other one will stay in place indefinitely, mean…
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon hasn’t provided detailed updates about its progress in replacing Claude with alternatives. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/appeal...
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“The department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the department’s information systems, by the department or its contractors, presented a statutorily covered national-security risk,” the jud…
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Earlier this year, the Pentagon sanctioned Anthropic under a pair of separate supply-chain laws to remove the company’s Claude AI models from the military and other parts of the federal government by this month.
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This smells like corruption to me. OpenAI has hacked several prominent entities and is allowed to do business as usual but Anthropic putting guardrails on the military's usage of AI is the national security threat while Pentagon itself sai…
I know everyone says this is political but it actually seems like a textbook designation. Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI, the military said no and therefore doesn't want anthropic used anywhere in their supply l…
I still don't fully understand what this was about. It sounds like the DoD said they wanted unrestricted access to Anthropic's models, Anthropic refused, so the Pentagon declared that they wouldn't use them at all. Isn't this basically wha…
I wonder if this is going start being abused soon. If I was Palantir or any other GOP aligned company, I would be completely against this. What's to stop a Democratic president from doing the same thing and destroying them?

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