U.S. Appeals Court Lets Pentagon Keep Supply-Chain Risk Label on Anthropic's Claude

A U.S. appeals court on September 25 allowed the Pentagon to keep treating Anthropic's Claude as a supply-chain risk in defense procurement, denying Anthropic's petitions for review in a 2-1 decision. The ruling preserves a March exclusion under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act while leaving a separate California win over broader sanctions as part of an unresolved, high-stakes fight over whether AI safety guardrails can become a procurement risk.