Friday 25 September 2026 · story 5 · Policy

Appeals court keeps Anthropic on the Pentagon's risk blacklist

CNBC · 25 Sep 2026 · Ashley Capoot

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon was right to label Anthropic a supply chain risk, blocking the military and its contractors from using Claude, CNBC reports. Judge Gregory Katsas wrote that Claude's integration posed a "statutorily covered national-security risk."

Why it matters. Anyone selling agent tools into defense or adjacent federal work now has a real precedent for a platform being blocked outright.

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