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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026Published at 2:30 AM EDT · New York
Appeals Court Upholds the Pentagon's Supply-Chain Risk Label on Anthropic
A 2-1 panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found the Department of Defense had ample support for treating Claude's built-in refusals as a national-security risk covered under the relevant statute.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the Department of Defense may keep its supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic, a designation that bars the military and its contractors fro…
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