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Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
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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.
Key facts
- The new decision by a US appeals court in Washington, DC, was somewhat expected
- Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says the company remains confident in its position and is considering all options
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth deemed the stance a significant national security risk
- Meanwhile, the Pentagon hasn’t provided detailed updates about its progress in replacing Claude with alternatives such as SpaceX’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, or OpenAI’s GPT models
Summary
“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 judges wrote in a majority opinion. Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says the company remains confident in its position and is considering all options. 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. The laws designating Anthropic had to be challenged in separate courts.