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U.S. appeals court upholds DOD blacklisting of Anthropic as supply chain risk

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A U.S. federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, ruling that Claude's integration with DOD systems constitutes a statutorily covered national-security risk. The decision affirms the regulatory blacklisting of the frontier AI lab.

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