Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
… Historically, supply-chain-risk designations have been reserved for keeping Chinese technologies out of US military systems to preserve operational security. …
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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: This Time, a US Court Has Ruled in the Government's Favor
… Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says the company is grateful the Washington, DC, court “recognized these issues need to be resolved quickly” and remains confident “the courts will ultimately agree that these supply chain designations were unlawful.” The Department of Defense did not immediate… …
Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says
“It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Lin said of the Pentagon designating the company a supply-chain risk. “It looks like the department is punishing Anthropic for trying to bring public scrutiny to this contract dispute, which of course would be a violation of the First Amendment.” Ant… …
Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic
… Zohra Tejani, a partner at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw who counsels tech companies on federal contracts, says that Anthropic may ultimately succeed in freeing itself of the supply-chain-risk label and resume its normal work with many customers. …
Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War
… This month, defense secretary Pete Hegseth labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a designation that will prevent the Department of Defense from using the company’s software, including through contractors, over the coming months. …
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
… Cisco Source Code Stolen in Software Supply Chain Breach Spree Cybersecurity news outlet Bleeping Computer reported this week that Cisco had been the latest victim of a software supply chain hacking spree, which has now resulted in the theft of portions of the company’s source code and that of some… …
Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems
… But courts often favor national security arguments from the government, and Pentagon officials have described Anthropic as a contractor that has gone rogue and that its technologies cannot be trusted. “In particular, DoW became concerned that allowing Anthropic continued access to DoW’s technical a… …
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
… TeamPCP appears to have compromised the two LiteLLM updates as part of an even larger supply chain hacking spree in recent months that has been gaining momentum, catapulting TeamPCP to prominence. …
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
… The NSA’s testing or adoption of Anthropic’s AI tool appears to have proceeded in spite of the Department of Defense’s declared ban on Anthropic, which followed Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim that the company represented a supply chain risk. …
The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
… Instead, Sovereign AI fund will focus on investing in domestic startups capable of commanding sections of the global AI supply chain. “Even the US and China are going to be dependent on other folks,” says Keegan McBride, director of science and technology at the Tony Blair Institute, a think tank f… …