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Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Are there tech workers who don't know what HN is? It's a pretty reasonably sized social media site.

I'm reminded of that episode of Portlandia where the mayor was obsessed with thinking the city was bigger and more important than it actually is.

I don't think I overstated it. Tech workers is a small piece of the global population.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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The issue of course is that the Judge can't change the knowledge that the head of the executive doesn't want people down the chain using this product, so they won't. Anthropic is a dead letter in government circles until the next Presidential election.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Lost in the cacophony is the fact that Anthropic fumbled a strong lifeline while hemorrhaging cash without a business model. It’s fun to look down at OpenAI but they may not get another chance like this again.

Claude has had such a massive increase in usage since being labeled a supply chain risk the service has been struggling to scale to meet increase demand.

On top of that, the prevailing opinion seemed to be that courts would overrule the supply chain risk designation, allowing the government and its subcontractors to use Claude again.

It’s hard to see how they could have navigated this better

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Lost in the cacophony is the fact that Anthropic fumbled a strong lifeline while hemorrhaging cash without a business model. It’s fun to look down at OpenAI but they may not get another chance like this again.

This government contract was a very small part of anthropic revenue. Almost negligible. Their 2026 revenue is projected to be $14 billion to $20 billion. This contract was $200M over 2 years.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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>was refuse to perform certain categories of service? Anthropic wanted to have the power over what the government could or couldn't do. If there was any false positive on something that was supposed to be allowed the government would have to work with Anthropic and get permission from them to do something they are allowed to do. This to me is the risk that Anthropic was giving to the government. If Anthropic expresse…

The military can work with someone else's product or use a bit of their trillion-dollar budget to come up with their own.

Yes, they can work with someone else. Marking them as a supply risk is one way they can avoid using them and instead use someone else for their needs. So now it seems like we are in a limbo where the government knows that Anthropic is a risk to work with, but they can't official put them on a list that states that.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Lost in the cacophony is the fact that Anthropic fumbled a strong lifeline while hemorrhaging cash without a business model. It’s fun to look down at OpenAI but they may not get another chance like this again.

Anthropic is the leading enterprise LLM provider. All they have to do is keep building a best-performing product, charge what they need, and keep costs as far down as possible. If my company knew there were an LLM 1.5x as good as Opus, they would be willing to pay 3x the cost. If it were being sold by Anthropic, they’d be even more likely to pay, since we could easily keep our same tooling.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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post #83

The issue of course is that the Judge can't change the knowledge that the head of the executive doesn't want people down the chain using this product, so they won't. Anthropic is a dead letter in government circles until the next Presidential election.

That's something that normal boring suits can and do remedy. Companies sue and win over denied government contracts all the time.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Are you suggesting there is a government conspiracy to influence this dusty corner dive bar of the Internet?

Are there tech workers who don't know what HN is? It's a pretty reasonably sized social media site.

I had no idea what hn was until about 2 years ago. This would be 8 years into a career in tech… there are dozens of us.

Re: Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

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Lost in the cacophony is the fact that Anthropic fumbled a strong lifeline while hemorrhaging cash without a business model. It’s fun to look down at OpenAI but they may not get another chance like this again.

This government contract was a very small part of anthropic revenue. Almost negligible. Their 2026 revenue is projected to be $14 billion to $20 billion. This contract was $200M over 2 years.

On top of that, Palantir has been designated as a multi year contract and they use Anthropic under the hood.
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