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'Illegal and baseless': US judge blocks the Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply chain risk

Anthropic emerges victorious in legal battle against Pentagon over supply chain risk designation
The Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's models for autonomous weapons and surveillance
Judge rules that the Pentagon's supply chain risk claims were "baseless"

A US federal judge has blocked the Pentagon's attempt to blacklist Anthropic in a major win for the Claude maker amid its ongoing battle against the US military over how its AI models can be used.

The Pentagon had previously demanded that Anthropic allow its Claude models to be used for 'any lawful purpose', including military applications, but the company refused to remove two key restrictions it's placed on Claude use – fully autonomous weapons and mass/domestic citizen surveillance are still banned by the AI firm.

Despite huge advanced in AI technology, Anthropic argues that today's models are still not reliable enough to make autonomous lethal decisions safely. It also worries over the ethical...

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