Appeals Court Backs Pentagon Decision to Remove Claude From Supply Chain

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Department of War’s decision to remove Anthropic’s Claude AI product from its supply chain.

Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the move under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. According to the court’s reasoning, the president and the secretary have broad responsibility to weigh competing national security and procurement risks when deciding which technologies the government can use.

The court found that Hegseth did not overstep his authority under either the law or the Constitution in excluding Claude from the department’s supply chain.

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