Anthropic says DOD 'decision' can't substitute for pre-decisional process
( July 6, 2026, 20:20 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic told a US appeals court that the Department of Defense’s “June decision” does not cure the defects in its original security risk designation of the company. Anthropic argued that the department issued a cursory, contradictory decision, implausibly claiming the designation did not depend on a particular factual understanding of Anthropic’s post-deployment access. “Notwithstanding the secretary’s revisionist account, the record is clear that the designation did rest on post-deployment-access concerns. And if the department actually knew Anthropic lacked such access all along, that makes the designation more arbitrary,” Anthropic said. See attached file. ...
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