OpenAI, Google employees back US appellate rehearing in Anthropic case
( October 20, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: OpenAI and Google employees filed a brief in support of a US appeals court revisiting Anthropic’s challenge to a government supply-chain risk designation, saying that if allowed to proceed, the punishment will harm the US’s competitiveness in AI and beyond. They said that if the government was not satisfied with the terms of its contract with Anthropic, it could have canceled the contract and hired another AI company, but instead it “recklessly invoked national security authorities intended to protect the procurement process from interference by foreign adversaries.”See attached file. ...
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