A US appeals court on Wednesday denied Anthropic's request to put on hold a move by the Pentagon to label it a supply chain risk, but ordered the AI startup's legal battle with the Department of War to be put on a fast track.
"On one side is relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company," the three-member appellate panel here reasoned.
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