U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

Summary

A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Department of Defense's March designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, which bars the military and its contractors from using Claude models. The majority, written by Judge Gregory Katsas and joined by Judge Neomi Rao, found the Department had ample support for its national-security conclusion, while Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson dissented. A San Francisco federal judge had earlier ruled a separate designation illegal, and the appellate ruling takes effect only after a delay to allow rehearing or Supreme Court review.

Topics

• Model and package supply chain

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