U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html

63•cramer4next•1h ago

Comments

iamdelirium•27m ago

I wonder if this is going start being abused soon.

If I was Palantir or any other GOP aligned company, I would be completely against this. What's to stop a Democratic president from doing the same thing and destroying them?

mattnewton•24m ago

I’m worried why many big companies aren’t worried about when the shoe is on the other foot.

bpodgursky•22m ago

None of them really believe our economic or political systems will be recognizable by 2029. Everyone's playing for position in the short takeoff.

2OEH8eoCRo0•5m ago

I worry that they don't expect to leave power because they're acting like they will never be held accountable.

cramer4next•22m ago

Can you clarify what a GOP aligned company is? Is that any company thats willing to do business with the U.S. government or any businesses thats willing to sell products in red states?

Ydarbleoj•14m ago

Maybe it's the companies that flank the US president at events in an attempt to gain favor? Or the companies that own private prisons that lobby for immoral policies on policing?

samudrijan•3m ago

Oil and gas and the GOP are one and the same.

Dems still subsidize O&G but they have other constituents they need to pay lip service to.

Banking and finance own both parties.

chrisjj•19m ago

How would this destroy Anthropic, exactly?

_ink_•17m ago

The supreme court, I guess. What makes you think they would allow that as long as Trump cronies have the majority there?

doctorwho42•16m ago

Because the modern Democrats are primarily a corporate dominated party. They haven't really had any hard hitting legislation nor legal regulation/rulings on corporations in easily the last 30 years.

I doubt that is going to change anytime soon. They are a private entity, so they can manage and change their primary system any way they want.

ajross•3m ago

> Democrats are primarily a corporate dominated party. They haven't really had any hard hitting legislation nor legal regulation/rulings on corporations in easily the last 30 years.

Sarbanes-Oxley? Dodd-Frank? ACA? Now I'm sure you (like, every other living human) has a ton of nitpicks and criticism of bills like that. But they're real and they passed and they're largely-to-wholely partisan creations of the Democratic policy apparatus (SOX looked very bipartisan and was passed under Bush, but the actual bill was written mostly by democratic staffers).

I mean, fine, you'd like different regulation. But they're responsible for basically all the corporate regulation active in the US regime.

Bothsidesism is a very poor tool for this particular argument. Work with your allies, please.

infamouscow•22m ago

If the CEO of any other defense contractor did this, they'd be summarily fired by the board.

petcat•20m ago

I still don't fully understand what this was about. It sounds like the DoD said they wanted unrestricted access to Anthropic's models, Anthropic refused, so the Pentagon declared that they wouldn't use them at all.

Isn't this basically what Anthropic wanted?

sippingabonedry•10m ago

Nerds at Anthropic thought it was a good idea to tell the US Government "we're the shot callers," to which the USG replied "lol, no" and dropped them like 3rd period French.

It boils down to inexperience with a healthy dose of delusion on Anthropic's part.

hardbass•6m ago

How is it delusion? If they don't want to work with certain types of government contracts they have the right to state so. Its just thuggery from Trump.

hiddencost•5m ago

This is straight up fascism. The DoD could have simply used a different provider but instead they're trying to destroy anthropic as a company.

lelandfe•5m ago

Garsh, how best to explain to this confused commenter the meaningfulness of designating a company as a supply chain risk to the government?

Ah: withdrawing from a college course.

hiddencost•6m ago

kittikitti•8m ago

I agree with its designation. The security scans from Claude Mythos have been highly suspicious, wrong, and with a significant false positive rate. Claude also directly causes conflict within teams through excessive utility of "git blame" which weaponizes everyone against each other until only Claude has control. I've had very bad experiences with Claude and only Claude.

HarHarVeryFunny•7m ago

Supply chain risk seems a massive over-reaction, but understandable that the government doesn't want to commit to Anthropic controlled software for any critical military application if they can't 100% rely on Anthropic support in being able to use it as they see fit.

timcobb•5m ago

> 100% rely on

that's the mobster-loyalty mentality, and it's not how successful (read: desirable for the most people) governments function

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