Make New York Post a Preferred Source A federal appeals court on Friday declined to block a Defense Department order blacklisting Anthropic from government contracts and deeming the AI startup a national security risk.
The ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came in a lawsuit by Anthropic challenging its designation by the Pentagon as a national security supply chain risk, which the startup says has cost it billions of dollars in lost business and damaged its reputation ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering.
A federal appeals court on Friday declined to block a Defense Department order blacklisting Anthropic from government contracts and deeming the AI startup a national security risk. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, above. Getty Images Dario Amodei’s Anthropic sayd the blacklisting has cost it billions of dollars in lost business and damaged its reputation ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. Bloomberg via Getty Images The designation has been blocked by a judge overseeing a separate legal challenge in California federal court.
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