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A US federal court has ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, CNBC reported. US District judge Rita Lin found that the US Department of Defense's restrictions placed on the AI company and its Claude model were "illegal and baseless." As part of the ruling, the judge barred certain federal agencies from enforcing President Trump's order to stop using Anthropic's tools.
"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Lin said in a 59-page decision. "Neither the Constitution nor the federal statute invoked by Defendants allows them to impose sweeping penalties based principally on Anthropic's critique of the Administration's views."
"We welcome the court's ruling that this supply chain risk designation was unlawful," an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. "We remain focused on working productively with the government to harness AI for our national security so all Americans benefit from this technology."
The dispute arose in late February, after the Department of Defense and its Secretary Pete Hegseth pressured Anthropic to remove certain safeguards from its AI systems. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, however, made it clear the company would refuse to allow its model to be used for mass surveillance or the development of autonomous weapons.
Late in February, Trump ordered all US government agencies to stop using Claude and other Anthropic services, escalating the feud. On social media, the president said there would be a six-month phase out period for federal agencies to migrate off of Anthropic's products. Subsequent talks collapsed and Anthropic became the first US company to be designated as a supply chain risk.
After saying it would challenge the decision, Anthropic sued the White House in two federal courts (for two separate designations) to reverse the ban. Today's ruling by Judge Lin gave the company a victory on one of those counts, but Anthropic is still considered a supply chain risk pending the second decision. Even if it wins both cases, though, the Pentagon would not be required to restart its work with the company.
The supply chain designation hasn't slowed Anthropic's march toward a likely near-record IPO later this year. Earlier this month, the company's revenue surged to a record $11.5 billion, 14 times more than it earned in the same quarter last year. Engadget has reached out to Anthropic for additional comment.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 31, @03:44AM (5 children)
Yeah, the U.S. Constitution was sort of Democracy 0.9 - revolutionary, ground breaking, but not quite a production ready release, and the amendment process isn't flexible enough to catch up with more modern versions.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by gnuman on Tuesday September 01, @09:57AM (4 children)
No.
US Constitution, as George W. said, is just a piece of paper. Democracy is a state of mind *and* a process, like having secure software, it's a process, not a final state.
This is why Benjamin Franklin in 1787 said "A republic, if you can keep it". The piece of paper will not save your republic. All things fall apart without maintenance and upkeep, including institutions and states. Following "dear leaders" instead of following rules, is exactly how things fall apart very quickly. If you want to improve or at least keep your country, you have to work on it. And sometimes that means more than vote once every few years. Few more years of that type of governance as DJT, and there will be nothing left.
For many people, their apathy of "I leave politics alone" -- but if you do that, politics may just not leave you alone. And there's far more at stake today than in 1787. Ask the participants of the "special military operation" how their apathy helped them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 01, @02:04PM (3 children)
> Ask the participants of the "special military operation" how their apathy helped them.
In the 1750s, roughly 1/2000 US citizens were casualties of conflicts with the North American native population.
by comparison, the "special military operation" has injured or killed roughly 1/400,000 US citizens.
The news may lead you to believe there is far more at stake today, but the house down our block was the site of a scalping where a nursing mother was left to bleed out with her baby still suckling her breast. It's different times, different scales of peril. Sure, there were no nuclear missiles in 1787, but there were a lot more real tangible not just on TV deaths and serious injuries from knives, bow and arrow, musket, etc.
As for the Constitution, it is indeed just a piece of paper, but it is also a reference point that keeps society on predictable procedures - such as the election coming up in November. It reduces chaos of national government concerns tremendously.
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(Score: 2) by gnuman on Thursday September 03, @06:54PM (2 children)
I know that Americans are self-centered, but come on! I'm clearly talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And so far, about 1/100 Russians is injured or dead, or maybe 1/50 men. The Russian apathy in the 2000s and 2010s made this a reality and now they are running to border to escape another round of mobilization.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday September 03, @07:50PM
Well, yeah, and the U.S. populace last "pushed back" against conscription for Vietnam. Our TACO in chief has floated just about every turd imaginable in press releases, but the one about re-instating the draft went out ever-so-quietly and was dropped faster than virtually all the rest.
13.4% of US service members became casualties during Vietnam, 2.2% died - this, of course, doesn't count the PTSD life ruined casualties like my dad's friends from school... That was about 1/500 of the population - 1/250 men, and when you got down into the service-age bracket those numbers got much more visible, like just about everybody went to school in the same class with somebody who didn't come back... Putin pushing that 5x harder is definitely earning him a mark in history. https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/08/30/cornered-vladimir-putin-plans-to-escalate-his-war [economist.com] https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83426 [kyivpost.com]
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday September 03, @07:53PM
Oh, and it's no coincidence that the TACO who has "achieved peace" in the Middle East 46 times already during his 2nd term alone, also frames those misadventures as a "Special Military Operation" not requiring the Republicans in Congress to approve funding for a war. Just another way to make the US look bad on the world stage, again. https://migflug.com/afterburner/uss-abraham-lincoln-rusty-carrier-pattaya-thailand-286-days-2026/ [migflug.com]
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