Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Ban Upheld

A split appeals ruling keeps Anthropic's Claude barred from Pentagon systems even as founders push for majority control before a ~$1.5T IPO.

• Pentagon ban upheld: A 2-1 DC Circuit ruling (Judges Katsas and Rao in majority, Judge Henderson dissenting) keeps Claude blocked from Defense Department systems, even as a San Francisco federal judge ruled the same supply-chain risk designation illegal last month.
• Anthropic seeks super-voting control: Dario Amodei and six co-founders (each ~2% owners) want 50.1% voting control ahead of an IPO now valued near $1.5T on secondary markets, up from $965B in May.

Themes, sentiment and reasons are AI-written paraphrases, checked so they never quote an episode. They may contain errors. Not investment advice. Episodes remain the property of their creators.