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Judge permanently blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist as unconstitutional

Political Guyentist · August 29, 20261 min read

The Defense Department cannot enforce the supply-chain-risk designation while the administration prepares an appeal.

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Anthropic was the first U.S. company publicly designated a supply-chain risk under this process.
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