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Court rejects Anthropic appeal over US national security risk label

EuroNews · · 375 words · By Anna Desmarais
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“The debate started when Anthropic refused to give the US government unfettered access to its AI chatbot, Claude.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming Anthropic's refusal to grant unfettered access to the US government for Claude.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
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“A court in the United States has rejected American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's request to shield it from being labelled a supply chain risk by the country's government.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming a US court rejecting Anthropic's request to avoid a supply chain risk label.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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“The label has never before been applied to an American company.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming whether the supply chain risk label had previously been applied to an American company.
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“The Trump administration labelled the AI company a supply chain risk and ordered federal agents to stop using Anthropic's AI assistant Claude in February, after the company refused to allow unrestricted military access to its model.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming the Trump administration labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk in February 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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“This label blocks contractors who work with the Pentagon from using the company's AI models on Department of Defence contracts.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming the supply chain risk label prevents Pentagon contractors from using Anthropic's AI models on DoD contracts.
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“The restrictions that are being disputed include the use of Claude for lethal autonomous weapons without human oversight and mass surveillance of Americans.”
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“In 2025, Anthropic signed a $200 million (€171.5 million) contract with the Pentagon to deploy its technology within the military's systems.”
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“Following that deal, the AI chatbot had been rolled out throughout the US government's classified information networks, deployed at national nuclear laboratories, and was doing intelligence analysis directly for the Department of Defence.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming Claude's deployment in US government classified networks or nuclear labs post-2025.
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“This setback for Anthropic in Washington comes after the company won a separate lawsuit focused on the same issues in a San Francisco court, which forced President Donald Trump’s administration to remove the label.”
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“Anthropic filed the two lawsuits in San Francisco and Washington last month and accused the Trump administration of engaging in an 'unlawful campaign of retaliation.'”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references confirming lawsuits or claims about Anthropic's legal actions in 2023.
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“In their March filing, the Department of Defence wrote that Anthropic might 'attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behaviour of its model' before or during 'warfighting operation' if the company 'feels that its corporate 'red lines' are being crossed.'”
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“The panel at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said it did not see any reason to revoke the Trump administration's actions because 'the precise amount of Anthropic's financial harm is not clear.'”
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“However, the appeals court will be hearing more evidence from this case in May.”
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