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Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697
- skue 8mo agoNo, just related. That was about Hegseth carrying through with his threat. This is about Anthropic making it clear they will fight this in court.
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoThe line about the court fight is in the official Anthropic post. The discussion is over there.
- locusofself 8mo agoPete Hegseth (and Trump) are such cartoon-villain buffoons. Anthropic is a "Supply Chain Risk" much the same as Rene Good was a "Professional Agitator" or "Domestic Terrorist". I pray that Trump gets crushed in the midterms
- nubg 8mo agoI hope something really comical happens, that cannot be explained away by a bully, like Texas turning blue.
- pogue 8mo agoI just voted blue in Texas today, so we'll see. But, probably keep your expectations low(ish). Early vote turnout in Texas outpacing past elections, fueled by Democratic primary voters - Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/texas-early-voting-turnout-democrats-midterm-election/ https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/texas-early-voting-t...
- nubg 8mo agoWould it be the Senate seat that would be jaw dropping? Or what exactly should I follow?
- padjo 8mo agoJames Tallerico is seen by many as a bit of a bellwether for how Trumps coalition with the religious right will hold. He's a Presbyterian minister who makes quite a big deal out of opposing Christian nationalism. If he can win Texas it would signal a lot of trouble for MAGA and Republicans in general.
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- yoyohello13 8mo agoIt’s so embarrassing being an American and having these people as my representatives. Trump’s screaming about LIBERAL LEFT LUNATICS is just so insane. I feel like I’m losing my mind. How can any person think this is the guy they want representing them? The last year has really shaken my faith in humanity.
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- skeledrew 8mo ago> LIBERAL LEFT LUNATICS At least he has the alliteration down.
- siliconc0w 8mo agoI think the lower courts will easily find this is far beyond what the statue allows (and a free speech violation) but this Supreme Court will be eager to get back on Trump's good side and will stay the lower courts injuction. That means at least a year to get it resolved, in the mean time practically all enterprise users will need to migrate off.
- mountainriver 8mo agoI would be shocked if any of the liberal enterprises move off them due to this. Maybe if they have explicit contracts around it but I have no idea why else they would.
- bloppe 8mo agoAny company that does business with the military will be prohibited from being a customer. That's basically all the biggest companies, who will all choose to keep their multi-billion dollar military contracts and simply use codex instead of Claude. So Anthropic would be prevented from selling to all the biggest companies, many of whom have already adopted Claude. That would be pretty tough.
- mountainriver 8mo agothey will move off it for explicitly their defense contracts which are often just one part of their business
- nawgz 8mo agoI don’t think it’s actually going to be a big deal. Anthropic’s response to Pete Kegsbreath basically said the only limitation they expect is DoD contractors can’t use it on DoD missions, not a general ban. Now that’s not nothing but there’s a whole business world hungry to generate insane amounts of code for no reason, they’re ready to collect the token tax
- wanderingstan 8mo agoWhat motivation would the Supreme Court have to get “back on Trumps good side?” If anything, after his recent name calling of them I’d think they’d be less inclined to appease him. The can’t be fired.
- somethoughts 8mo agoWhile not exactly parallel, it seems slightly hypocritical that this is coming from the party of "a baker should not be forced to bake a wedding cake for a customer that they ideologically/morally disagree with." I guess the rules are different if the customer is the government? If it's the government, then if the government doesn't get its wedding cake then the government can go so far as to prevent the baker from selling cakes entirely to any other customers.
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- apothegm 8mo agoTo this political faction, it’s different when the customer is the in-group.
- skue 8mo agoThis isn’t parallel at all, and I didn’t realize that Anthropic was the member of any particular party.
- somethoughts 8mo agoSorry I was a bit unclear - this was referencing the Administration not Anthropic. The United States Department of Justice under the Trump administration, supported Phillips.[20][5] While the Department asserts that anti-discrimination laws are necessary to prevent businesses that provide goods and services from discriminating, these laws cannot be used to compel a business into expressing speech they do not agree with, nor used to provide goods and services with such expressions without the ability for the business to assert they do not agree with those expressions. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission#Petition_for_writ_of_certiorari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
- rdtsc 8mo ago> these laws cannot be used to compel a business into expressing speech they do not agree with I don’t think they are preventing them. You can still buy some Anthropic. Heck, maybe you’re now doubly motivated to buy some out of spite. What Uncle Sam is saying is he doesn’t want anything to do with it. But Anthropic can produce whatever and others can buy it. In their view just like businesses cannot be compelled so are the customers, they can’t be compelled to buy.
- tzs 8mo agoThe military uses a lot of open source software. It would be interesting if the maintainers of several projects the Pentagon depends on were to start using Claude on those projects. How would Hegseth explain that it is both such a big risk that he wants to ban from government work any company that uses Anthropic even if they are not using it for their government work, yet they keep using those open source projects whose maintainers are using it for the work the government is using? Note: even projects that do not allow AI contributions could almost certainly find something helpful to use it for.