US court halts the Pentagon’s ‘supply chain risk’ tag on Anthropic
· Source: medianama.com
In short
A U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting AI company Anthropic as a 'national security supply-chain risk', questioning whether the designation was unlawful retaliation for the company's public stance on AI safety. The dispute stems from Anthropic's refusal to allow its AI chatbot Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, leading the Pentagon to impose the designation that could block the company from key military contracts. This marks the first known instance of the U.S. government publicly labelling a domestic company as a supply-chain risk under laws typically used against foreign threats.
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