Federal Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon’s "Supply-Chain Risk" Label on Anthropic

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejects Anthropic's challenge and allows the Department of Defense to maintain its ban preventing the military and its contractors from integrating Claude models into defense systems. The legal battle stems from a clash over usage restrictions regarding autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, keeping the high-stakes dispute alive as Anthropic weighs further review.