U.S. appeals court rules Pentagon may blacklist Anthropic
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
What happened
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2–1 that the Defense Department may blacklist Anthropic for refusing to make certain Claude capabilities available to the military, even though Anthropic acted without malicious intent. The ruling said the case raises difficult questions about military use of powerful new technologies and found that the defense secretary had not exceeded authority under the Supply Chain Security Act or the Constitution, rejecting the petition for rehearing. The same court denied Anthropic's emergency stay request in April.
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