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Anthropic urges court in Washington, D.C. to rehear appeal of Pentagon blacklisting
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Anthropic is asking a federal court in Washington, D.C. to rehear its appeal in a case concerning the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company's AI models.
Key facts
- The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Department of Defense's ban on its Claude models was arbitrary, unauthorized and unconstitutional
- In a parallel case, a San Francisco federal judge ruled in August that the DOD had violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights, and that its supply chain risk designation amounted to illegal
- The Defense Department, led by Pete Hegseth, applied the supply chain risk label in March, a move that blocked defense contractors from using the company's technology in their work with the agency
- Anthropic is asking a federal court in Washington, D.C. to rehear its appeal in a case concerning the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company's AI models
Summary
"The Secretary of War branded Anthropic, an American AI company whose models help defend the nation— a national-security 'supply chain risk' because it declined to permit its models to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or lethal autonomous warfare and publicly explained those AI-safety commitments," Anthropic attorneys wrote in the petition filed on Tuesday. The Defense Department, led by Pete Hegseth, applied the supply chain risk label in March, a move that blocked defense contractors from using the company's technology in their work with the agency. Anthropic sued the Trump administration in an effort to undo that action. Anthropic's attorneys wrote in the Tuesday filing that the court ignored "straightforward evidence the designation was retaliation for Anthropic's speech about AI safety.