{"id":3491397,"date":"2026-07-30T20:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/judge-states-trump-administration-still-does-not-have-proof-for-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-designation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:26:38","slug":"judge-states-trump-administration-still-does-not-have-proof-for-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/judge-states-trump-administration-still-does-not-have-proof-for-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge states Trump administration still does not have proof for Anthropic \u2018supply-chain risk\u2019 designation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a Thursday session, a judge remarked that the Trump administration has not provided sufficient evidence to warrant classifying Anthropic as a supply-chain threat and forbidding the federal government from utilizing the company’s technology.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg and Axios were among the initial outlets to report on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contention arises from stalled contractual discussions between Anthropic and the Department of Defense. Anthropic expressed its reluctance to have its AI employed for widespread surveillance of Americans or for making targeting or firing decisions regarding lethal weapons, contending that the technology is not yet ready. In response, the Pentagon asserted that a private entity should not control how the military employs technologies, stating it would utilize the tools in ways deemed \u201clawful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government has also maintained that Anthropic’s public criticisms of the DOD warrant the ban \u2014 reasoning that U.S. District Judge Rita Lin described as \u201creally troubling,\u201d cautioning that it could establish a precedent for retaliation against federal contractors who oppose the administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DOD additionally claimed that Anthropic might be able to disable or modify its AI models during military operations \u2014 an assertion experts believe is unsupported by evidence.\u00a0Lin concurred, indicating that she found no evidence that Anthropic could change a delivered model or \u201cactivate some sort of kill switch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday’s session was part of one of two lawsuits Anthropic initiated against the DOD in March, contesting the ban and risk classification. The other case is currently being heard in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lin, who temporarily halted the ban in March, is now considering whether to make that ruling permanent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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At a Thursday session, a judge remarked that the Trump administration has not provided sufficient evidence to warrant classifying Anthropic as a supply-chain threat and forbidding the federal government from utilizing the company’s technology.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg and Axios were among the initial outlets to report on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contention arises from stalled contractual discussions between Anthropic and the Department of Defense. Anthropic expressed its reluctance to have its AI employed for widespread surveillance of Americans or for making targeting or firing decisions regarding lethal weapons, contending that the technology is not yet ready. In response, the Pentagon asserted that a private entity should not control how the military employs technologies, stating it would utilize the tools in ways deemed \u201clawful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government has also maintained that Anthropic’s public criticisms of the DOD warrant the ban \u2014 reasoning that U.S. District Judge Rita Lin described as \u201creally troubling,\u201d cautioning that it could establish a precedent for retaliation against federal contractors who oppose the administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DOD additionally claimed that Anthropic might be able to disable or modify its AI models during military operations \u2014 an assertion experts believe is unsupported by evidence.\u00a0Lin concurred, indicating that she found no evidence that Anthropic could change a delivered model or \u201cactivate some sort of kill switch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday’s session was part of one of two lawsuits Anthropic initiated against the DOD in March, contesting the ban and risk classification. The other case is currently being heard in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lin, who temporarily halted the ban in March, is now considering whether to make that ruling permanent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}