Court upholds Pentagon's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic's Claude AI
· Source: cryptonomist.ch
In short
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, barring its Claude AI models from use by the U.S. military and federal contractors. The ruling, a 2-1 decision, rejected Anthropic's due process and free speech claims and framed the Pentagon's actions as a contractual dispute rather than a policy crackdown. Meanwhile, the Pentagon considers alternatives such as AI models from SpaceX, Google, and OpenAI.
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