US court refuses to stay Pentagon’s ‘supply-chain risk’ blacklisting of Anthropic

A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to suspend the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic, leaving defense contractors with conflicting legal signals over whether they can continue using Claude, and putting the ruling at odds with a separate federal court that reached the opposite conclusion last month. “The equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government,” a three-judge panel wrote in its order Wednesday. “On one side is a relatively contained risk of...