Court upholds Pentagon's Anthropic AI exclusion
· Source: techi.com
In short
A 2–1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the Department of War's decision to exclude Anthropic's Claude from covered defense supply-chain work under FASCSA, treating supplier-designed model restrictions as a supply-chain risk. The majority deferred to the executive branch on national security, while Judge Henderson dissented, arguing the statute targets covert sabotage rather than openly negotiated safety limits. The ruling leaves ordinary commercial use of Claude untouched but is likely to reshape federal AI contract language, model disclosure and acceptance testing.
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