{
  "id": 9790656,
  "title": "Appeals court allows Pentagon to label Anthropic a national security risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/appeals-court-allows-pentagon-to-label-anthropic-a-national-security",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-25T16:19:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/appeals-court-allows-pentagon-to-label-anthropic-national-security-risk-2026-9"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Trump administration has been granted the power to label AI firm Anthropic as a national security risk by a federal appeals court, expanding its authority to designate US businesses in this manner. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favor of the Defense Department, stating that the Pentagon had good reason to deem Anthropic's AI products a supply chain risk due to the company's restrictions on certain tasks. Anthropic has pledged not to utilize its products for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. The court acknowledged that the integration of Anthropic's Claude model into the Department's information systems or by its contractors would pose a nationally covered security risk. This decision could have significant reputational and financial implications for Anthropic, potentially causing a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.",
  "summary": "The Trump administration can blacklist AI firm Anthropic from all Pentagon contracts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.",
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  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": "https://urgent.news/ill/9790656.png",
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 8,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "CNBC Technology",
        "title": "U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/u-s-appeals-court-upholds-pentagon-designation-of-anthropic-as-supply",
        "published": "2026-09-25T15:27:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "D.C. appeals court sides with Pentagon on blacklist of Anthropic",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/d-c-appeals-court-sides-with-pentagon-on-blacklist-of-anthropic",
        "published": "2026-09-25T15:48:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "Federal appeals court declines to block Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/federal-appeals-court-declines-to-block-pentagon-from-blacklisting",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:06:20.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Federal court says US government can label Anthropic a supply chain risk",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/federal-court-says-us-government-can-label-anthropic-a-supply-chain",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:48:49.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Wired",
        "title": "Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/appeals-court-lets-the-pentagon-designate-anthropic-a-supply-chain",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:58:20.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "US court upholds Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/us-court-upholds-pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:03:52.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Federal appeals court upholds Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic in AI dispute",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/federal-appeals-court-upholds-pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic-in",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:10:35.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}