Appeals Court allows Pentagon to remove Anthropic from all contracts

The appeals court allowed the Pentagon to exclude Anthropic from all of its contracts.

The Pentagon recognized Anthropic as a threat to the supply chain and intended to completely phase out its services by the end of September.

The court concluded that the Pentagon had reasonable grounds to consider the continued use of Anthropic's product a threat to national security.

WASHINGTON, September 25 - RIA Novosti. The Court of Appeal allowed the US authorities to exclude the artificial intelligence developer company Anthropic from participation in all Pentagon contracts, according to a court document reviewed by RIA Novosti.

The Pentagon formally notified Anthropic management on March 6 that it recognized the company as a supply chain threat. The department intended to completely abandon Anthropic by the end of September. However, soon a court in the United States blocked the developer’s inclusion in the Pentagon’s “blacklist.”

"This case involves the Department of War's decision to exclude Claude, an artificial intelligence product developed by Anthropic PBC, from its supply chain... Anthropic challenges this exclusion, arguing that it is arbitrary, unregulated and unconstitutional. We reject these arguments," the court filing states.

The court concluded that the Pentagon had reasonable grounds to consider the continued use of Claude a threat to national security. In particular, the restrictions built into Anthropic allegedly repeatedly prevented the model from fulfilling requests from government agencies, and during one of the foreign military operations, the department had doubts whether Claude would be able to perform the necessary tasks.