U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
美国上诉法院维持将 Anthropic 列为供应链风险的裁定
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic. The DOD labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk in March, and Anthropic sued the Trump administration in an effort to undo that action. 位于华盛顿特区的联邦上诉法院维持了五角大楼对 Anthropic 的封杀令。国防部于今年 3 月将 Anthropic 列为供应链风险，Anthropic 随后起诉特朗普政府，试图撤销这一决定。
The designation prevents the U.S. military from using Anthropic’s models and blocks defense contractors from using them in their work with the agency. 该认定禁止美国军方使用 Anthropic 的模型，并阻止国防承包商在与该机构合作时使用这些模型。
“We remain confident in our position and are considering all options, including further review,” an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement. Anthropic 发言人在一份声明中表示：“我们对自己的立场保持信心，并正在考虑所有选项，包括寻求进一步审查。”
A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. 周五，华盛顿特区的一个联邦上诉法院小组维持了五角大楼对 Anthropic 的封杀令，这对这家人工智能公司与特朗普政府长达数月的博弈造成了打击。
The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic’s argument that the Department of Defense’s ban on its Claude models was arbitrary, unauthorized and unconstitutional. 这项以 2 比 1 通过的裁决驳回了 Anthropic 的论点，即国防部对其 Claude 模型的禁令是武断的、未经授权且违宪的。
“The Department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the Department’s information systems, by the Department or its contractors, presented a statutorily covered national-security risk,” Judge Gregory Katsas wrote in the majority opinion for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which Judge Neomi Rao joined. Katsas and Rao were appointed by President Donald Trump. 美国哥伦比亚特区联邦上诉法院法官格雷戈里·卡萨斯（Gregory Katsas）在多数意见书中写道：“国防部有充分的证据支持其结论，即由国防部或其承包商将 Claude 继续整合到国防部的信息系统中，构成了法律所涵盖的国家安全风险。”法官尼奥米·拉奥（Neomi Rao）加入了该意见书。卡萨斯和拉奥均由唐纳德·特朗普总统任命。
Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was appointed by former President George H.W. Bush, dissented. 由前总统乔治·H·W·布什任命的法官凯伦·勒克拉夫特·亨德森（Karen LeCraft Henderson）持异议。
In March, the DOD labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, meaning the company purportedly threatened U.S. national security, after negotiations about how the military could use its Claude AI models spiraled out of control. The designation prevents the U.S. military from using Anthropic’s models and blocks defense contractors from using them in their work with the agency. 今年 3 月，在关于军方如何使用其 Claude AI 模型的谈判陷入僵局后，国防部将 Anthropic 列为供应链风险，这意味着该公司被认为威胁到了美国国家安全。该认定禁止美国军方使用 Anthropic 的模型，并阻止国防承包商在与该机构合作时使用这些模型。
Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration has been fraught ever since, and Trump has repeatedly slammed company’s CEO Dario Amodei on social media. Amodei recently drew Trump’s ire by calling for an industry wide slowdown, and he was not invited to the glitzy state dinner the White House hosted for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. 自那以后，Anthropic 与特朗普政府的关系一直十分紧张，特朗普多次在社交媒体上抨击该公司首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）。阿莫代最近因呼吁全行业放缓发展速度而激怒了特朗普，他也没有受邀参加周四白宫为中国国家主席习近平举办的盛大国宴。
“The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,” like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” - and we will continue to do so!,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Monday. “特朗普政府已经阻止了 AI ‘人士’做坏事，或者潜在的坏事，比如达里奥（Anthropic！），他现在假装是一个‘完美的小天使’——我们将继续这样做！”特朗普周一在“真实社交”（Truth Social）上发帖写道。
Anthropic sued the Trump administration in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and in the D.C. Circuit Appeals Court in March, seeking to reverse its blacklisting. The DOD relied on two distinct designations to justify its supply chain risk action, which meant they had to be litigated in two separate courts. Anthropic 于 3 月在旧金山联邦地区法院和华盛顿特区巡回上诉法院起诉了特朗普政府，寻求撤销其封杀令。国防部依靠两项不同的认定来证明其供应链风险行动的合理性，这意味着它们必须在两个不同的法院进行诉讼。
A San Francisco federal judge ruled last month that one designation was illegal. The ruling Friday by the D.C. appeals court upheld the second designation. 旧金山的一名联邦法官上个月裁定其中一项认定是非法的。周五华盛顿特区上诉法院的裁决则维持了第二项认定。
“We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision,” an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC in a statement. “Another federal court has already held the government’s parallel designation unlawful. We remain confident in our position and are considering all options, including further review.” “我们尊重但不同意法院的裁决，”Anthropic 发言人在一份声明中告诉 CNBC。“另一家联邦法院已经裁定政府的平行认定是非法的。我们对自己的立场保持信心，并正在考虑所有选项，包括寻求进一步审查。”
The appellate panel said it would delay the decision from taking immediate effect to give Anthropic time to petition the same panel for a rehearing or to seek an en banc rehearing of the case, by all of the judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic could also ask the Supreme Court to take the case. 上诉小组表示，将推迟该裁决的立即生效，以便给 Anthropic 时间向同一小组申请重审，或寻求由华盛顿特区巡回上诉法院全体法官进行全席重审。Anthropic 也可以请求最高法院审理此案。
Before the clash between the two sides spilled into the public’s view earlier this year, Anthropic served as an early partner across many U.S. agencies, including the DOD. Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon in July of 2025, but as the company began negotiating Claude’s deployment on the DOD’s GenAI.mil AI platform that September, talks collapsed. 在今年早些时候双方的冲突公开化之前，Anthropic 一直是包括国防部在内的许多美国机构的早期合作伙伴。Anthropic 于 2025 年 7 月与五角大楼签署了一份价值 2 亿美元的合同，但当该公司于同年 9 月开始就 Claude 在国防部 GenAI.mil AI 平台上的部署进行谈判时，谈判破裂了。
The DOD wanted Anthropic to grant the military unfettered access to its models across all lawful purposes, while Anthropic wanted assurance that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance. They were unable to come to an agreement, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of attempting to “to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military.” 国防部希望 Anthropic 允许军方在所有合法用途下不受限制地访问其模型，而 Anthropic 则希望确保其技术不会被用于全自动武器或国内大规模监控。双方未能达成协议，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）指责 Anthropic 试图“夺取对美国军方作战决策的否决权”。
Katsas said Friday that Hegseth raised the “deeply sobering” idea that “overly constrained” AI models could shut down unexpectedly, as well as the potential that Claude might be “subject to manipulation.” While Anthropic refuted those claims, Katsas said decision-making authority ultimately rests with Trump and Hegseth. 卡萨斯周五表示，赫格塞斯提出了一个“令人深思”的观点，即“过度受限”的 AI 模型可能会意外关闭，以及 Claude 可能“易受操纵”的潜在风险。尽管 Anthropic 反驳了这些说法，但卡萨斯表示，决策权最终掌握在特朗普和赫格塞斯手中。
“In our Republic, it is the President and the Secretary of War who must determine how best to balance the competing risks,” Katsas wrote. “In doing so here, the Secretary did not transgress any limits on his authority under the Supply Chain Security Act or the Constitution.” “在我们的共和国中，必须由总统和战争部长（国防部长）来决定如何最好地平衡相互竞争的风险，”卡萨斯写道。“在此过程中，部长并没有超越他在《供应链安全法》或宪法下所赋予的权力限制。”