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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 you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?

>Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote? I've recently heard a commentary by a man with PhD in international relations* about why has Trump won the elections. Specialist said that a lot of people who would have voted against Trump didn't vote. That was due to many grave mistakes made by the democrats. Usually when populists win, it's because the other side…

Or there is mass neurocompromise.

At least we have a pardon czar now. So many people have been coerced into committing crimes, with said coercion taking many different forms, there needs to be mass pardons across the board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marie_Johnson everybody check her out.

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

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The point of the supply chain risk designation was not just to have the DoD stop using Anthropic (they could have done that by just cancelling the contract). Their intended effect was to force every company that sells to the US government, no matter how indirectly, to not use Anthropic in any way, which would effectively destroy them because almost every company is in the supply chain (for example my company is https…

Fun fact: Palantir is powered entirely by Claude and was what was used for the Venezuela operation and for targeting for the Iranian operation.

> Fun fact: Palantir is powered entirely by Claude

I'm pretty sure Palantir predates the modern AI boom.

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.

> Anthropic is a dead letter in government circles until the next Presidential election.

Department of Defense itself is still using Anthropic in active combat operations _after_ the Supply Chain Risk designation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/anthropic-pentagon-ai-claude...

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

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This is not about the usage restrictions in the agreement. As shown by OpenAI's agreement getting similar restrictions. It is about Anthropic's attitude in how Anthropic has the ultimate power in its usage. If RTX started demanding that they should be the ones to decide who Tomahawk missiles can be used on when they are launched. And RTX said that the government should file a support ticket to appeal a decision, then…

What the court found is that Anthropic demanded no such thing. The government lied and claimed that they did as part of their attempt to punish Anthropic.

It was a preliminary injunction. The purpose of such an injunction is not to establish what actually happened. We will need to wait for this to progress further to learn more information about what actually happened.

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

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Glad to see the judicial system works sometimes atleast. Less cynically now, the president has admired Xi many many times openly, and it’s clear he prefers an administrative style similar to China. That is what he is turning the country into. Everybody goes and bends the knee like the tech ceos did and he controls every aspect of the administration with an iron fist, just like China.

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

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Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?

I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.

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

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>10 U.S.C. § 3252 authorizes the Secretary of Defense to exclude a source from defense procurements involving national security systems if there is a supply chain risk, defined as the risk that an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or subvert a covered system.

I think any LLM is covered by that, but specifically for Anthropic,

>Recent research has uncovered several critical vulnerabilities, including the "Claudy Day" attack chain which allows silent data exfiltration through conversation history, and a zero-click XSS prompt injection in the Chrome extension that enabled attackers to inject prompts without user interaction until a patch was released in February 2026.

What is obvious to me however is the timing. This Trump pants-shitting happened just before the Iran invasion. You can just imagine it. Trump wants to send fully autonomous bots into Iran to destroy the non-existent nuclear program. Anthropic leadership tries to make a moral stand saying innocent civilians could die. Trump doesn't care because he wants zero US military casualties even if it means a school full of Iranian children is bombed and everyone is killed. And then we get exactly that plus a forever war.

And obviously, the judge is out of her lane too... since, you know, the rule basically can apply to any AI agent because they're just as likely to do what you ask as they are to delete all your emails without even apologizing for it.

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

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Had this conversation with a friend, but I think as an America you can be very optimistic about the institutional strength of democracy in the country. People are very pessimistic recently, but if anything, we are seeing that our system works well. A person got into power that a majority voted for, but when he oversteps, the courts and other institutions (even judges and fed reserve chairs he picked!) seem to hold hi…

And people say that posting isn’t art…
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