Anthropic challenge to supply chain risk designation rejected by US appeals court
( September 25, 2026, 14:54 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic's challenge of the US Defense Department’s decision to designate it a supply chain risk has been rejected by a federal appeals court. In a 2-1 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the Department had “ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the Department’s information systems, by the Department or its contractors, presented a statutorily covered national-security risk.”See attached file. ...
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