Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
A US appeals court today approved the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic technology. Judges decided the US had authority to blacklist Anthropic for withholding certain AI features even if Anthropic had no malicious intent. In a 2-1 ruling issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a panel of judges said the "case raises profoundly difficult questions about the appropriate military uses of an almost unimaginably powerful new technology." The US "raises t
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A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration has the legal authority to blacklist an AI company for restricting certain features of its AI model, even without proof of malicious intent. The case hinges on competing national security concerns: the government fears that constrained AI models could fail during military operations, while the AI company warns that unconstrained models might cause harm through errors in targeting lethal force. Two different courts have reached opposite conclusions on whether the blacklisting is legal, creating conflicting rulings based on different federal statutes that govern supply chain security.
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