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Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process (Bloomberg)

Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense seeking removal from a blacklist that identifies firms as supporting China’s military. The company argues that the designation, which places it on a list of Chinese military-linked companies, violates constitutional due-process rights. The suit targets the Pentagon’s decision to keep Alibaba on the list.

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Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

Defense officials have shown how AI chatbots could support targeting decisions. Palantir demos illustrate that the military could use these chatbots to generate war plans, drawing on data from Department of Defense records. The demonstrations reveal the kinds of queries the systems can handle and the data used to produce responses.

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Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)

Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense seeking to block the agency’s designation of the company as a supply-chain risk, arguing that the label is unlawful and infringes on its free-speech and due-process rights. The designation, made by the Pentagon, has led partners to pause negotiations and threatens a potential multibillion-dollar loss for Anthropic.

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Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant climbed to the #1 position on the U.S. Apple App Store, overtaking competing chatbot apps. The surge in rankings occurred after the company’s negotiations with the Pentagon, a dispute that sparked heightened user interest and propelled the app to the top spot.

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Source: the DOD appears to have accepted OpenAI's safety red lines, which were similar to Anthropic's, to deploy OpenAI's tech in classified settings (Maria Curi/Axios)

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models within the DoD’s classified network, with the department accepting safety conditions that mirror Anthropic’s red-line standards. The deal allows OpenAI to build its own safety stack and ensures the DoD will not compel the models to perform tasks they refuse.

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A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the "all lawful use" standard, which Anthropic has refused (Axios)

The Pentagon is locked in a dispute with Anthropic over the company’s AI-service safeguards, with Anthropic refusing the “any lawful use” terms that would permit mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons. The department may replace Anthropic, while xAI has agreed to let the military employ its Grok system in classified environments under the same “all lawful use” standard.

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