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The San Francisco judge had found that the Department of Defense likely acted in bad faith against Anthropic
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Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says the company is grateful the Washington, DC, court “recognized these issues need to be resolved quickly” and remains confident “the courts will ultimately agree that these supply chain designations were unlawful.”
Key facts
- Update 4/8/26 7:27 EDT: This story has been updated to include a statement form acting attorney general Todd Blanche
- The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but acting attorney general Todd Blanche posted a statement on X
- The government sanctioned Anthropic under two different supply-chain laws with similar effects, and the San Francisco and Washington, DC, courts are each ruling on only one of them
- Granting a stay would force the United States military to prolong its dealings with an unwanted vendor of critical AI services in the middle of a significant ongoing military conflict
Summary
Anthropic “has not satisfied the stringent requirements” to temporarily lose the supply-chain-risk designation imposed by the Pentagon, a US appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled on Wednesday. The government sanctioned Anthropic under two different supply-chain laws with similar effects, and the San Francisco and Washington, DC, courts are each ruling on only one of them. “Granting a stay would force the United States military to prolong its dealings with an unwanted vendor of critical AI services in the middle of a significant ongoing military conflict,” the three-judge appellate panel wrote on Wednesday in what they described as an unprecedented case. The San Francisco judge had found that the Department of Defense likely acted in bad faith against Anthropic, driven by frustration over the AI company’s proposed limits on how its technology could be used and its public criticism of those restrictions.