… A grocery store chain canceled a sales meeting, citing the supply-chain-risk designation, Smith added. “All have taken steps that reflect deep distrust and a growing fear of associating with Anthropic,” Smith wrote. …
… Soon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that he was designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk, rival OpenAI announced it had struck a new contract with the Pentagon. …
… Singer notes that while the US has the world’s best AI chips, China’s supply chain gives its robotics companies a hardware edge. “Both sides have key parts of the supply chain that they might be able to weaponize, but here they are working together,” he says. …
… Earlier this year, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth sanctioned Anthropic under two different government supply-chain laws to remove the company’s Claude AI models from the military and other federal agencies. …
… It sued the Trump administration earlier this year over a supply chain risk designation it received after trying to draw red lines around how military contractors could use its AI models. …
… The culprit, as Cook and many other tech titans have framed it, is the ongoing memory shortage, a supply chain-wide dearth of critical storage and memory components that consumer tech companies like Apple rely on to build their devices. …
… Both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launched in November 2020, right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the impact of global lockdowns on everything from manufacturing to distribution drove supply chains to a breaking point. …
… That's where I'm struggling to understand the rationale behind this project,” says Francisco Jeronimo, vice president of data and analytics at research group IDC. “If 10 years ago, a phone did not make any sense and it was obvious that it would not succeed, today is even worse.” Jeronimo pointed ou… …
… They have to know what the supply chain emissions are, transportation emissions, all these different things. It’s not about not using AI. …
… On Monday, Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the DOD pushing back against the agency's decision to label the company as a supply chain risk, which is pretty detrimental to Anthropic's business. …