150 Former Judges File Amicus Brief Supporting Anthropic Against Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Label

Nearly 150 retired federal and state judges, appointed by both parties, filed an amicus brief arguing the Pentagon 'misinterpreted the statute and violated necessary procedures' in designating Anthropic a supply chain risk. Anthropic's CFO warned of 'hundreds of millions' in lost 2026 revenue. Claude was the only classified-ready frontier AI system; its removal creates a capability gap as the Pentagon pursues classified training with xAI and OpenAI, neither of which has Anthropic's safety testing record on classified networks.