US appeals court upholds Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic

“The US government took a legal designation explicitly crafted to protect against foreign adversaries and deployed it against a private, domestic entity, to their immediate and great detriment.”

“how this isn't seen as an open and shut case of vindictive prosecution (if that's even a thing for this branch of law?) is astounding. The administration couldn't have made it more obvious there was no merit to their designation”

“This smells like corruption to me. OpenAI has hacked several prominent entities and is allowed to do business as usual but Anthropic putting guardrails on the military's usage of AI is the national security threat”

“Opinion by Katsas and Rao. For those that don’t follow this regularly, those are two of the biggest Trump hacks on the bench. I suspect this will be reversed en banc. Anthropic’s argument is really clear and easy to understand:”

“All AI is a supply chain risk. I think people should know that about now. You can't keep it in a box.”

“the core point is that this is the US being stupid, again.”

“What's to stop a Democratic president from doing the same thing and destroying them?”

“If the CEO of any other defense contractor did this, they'd be summarily fired by the board.”

“look what Grok did to hundreds of Iranian children”

“I agree with its designation. The security scans from Claude Mythos have been highly suspicious, wrong, and with a significant false positive rate. Claude also directly causes conflict within teams through excessive utility of "git blame" which weaponizes everyone against”

“This is more about wringing Anthropic's hand to agree for handful of defense companies to be the official AI translators to government.”

“The impact of AI might be significant/belligerent/virulent”

“Anthropic tried to build safeguards and out-regulate the government. Everyone here should know that such limitations would (can and have, see some famous IFF spoofing incidents) be exploited by an enemy, which is generally why they aren't acceptable in a”

“I don’t agree with the decision, but I don’t think courts should be able to easily overturn the federal government’s findings when it comes to national security in a specific decision like this.”

“You can agree with the rules anthropic wanted, but having rules set by a private company at all that apply to the military does seem fair for the military to object to.”

“I guess it’s the supreme court next. For all the downsides of losing the business of government contractors, it really would hold Anthropic to their stated values: they’ll never develop AI controlled weapons on this blacklist.”

“The hidden upside for Anthropic is now they won't be forced to refer to AI as "SI".”

“This was not a good panel for Anthropic, but they did get a strong dissent from Judge Henderson, which should help when seeking en banc review.”

“Claude and other "big" LLMs have filters so they will do everything they can to avoid reading or writing "harmful" or "adult" content. This is part of the "public liability" thing that Anthropic and other AI companies claim to honor.”

“being a federally designated security risk only *complicates* an AI developer's Trump administration ties, rather than ending them”

“An appeals court upheld the Defense Department’s decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain after Anthropic refused to remove Claude safeguards for autonomous lethal weapons and mass surveillance.”

“An appeals court upheld the Defense Department’s decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain after Anthropic refused to remove Claude safeguards for autonomous lethal weapons and mass surveillance.”

“With split rulings across courts, this legal fight over AI supply chain risk is far from settled.”

“if they are labeling Anthropic an NS threat because they hurt Trump's widdle feelins, then he will need to show proof how and why.”