The Department of War filed an appeal on April 2 against a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked the Pentagon from continuing to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.
The designation of the artificial intelligence (AI) company, under a federal law designed to protect military systems from foreign sabotage, functions as a blacklist, preventing it from doing business with the federal government and its contractors.
This is the first time the supply-chain risk designation—which is ordinarily aimed at terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and other hostile actors—has been applied to a U.S. company.
The block allows the company to continue doing business with federal agencies and contractors while the lawsuit plays out in court….
Pentagon Appeals After Judge Blocks Designation of Anthropic as Supply-Chain Risk
