Anthropic urges court in Washington, D.C. to rehear appeal of Pentagon blacklisting

Anthropic is asking a federal court in Washington, D.C. to rehear its appeal in a case concerning the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company's AI models. "The Secretary of War branded Anthropic — an American AI company whose models help defend the nation— a national-security 'supply chain risk' because it declined to permit its models to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or lethal autonomous warfare and publicly explained those AI-safety commitments," Anthropic attorneys wrote in the petition filed on Tuesday. "A divided panel upheld that extraordinary designation.