The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday, Sept. 26, edition that a U.S. federal appeals court recently upheld the Pentagon's classification of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe reports that the ruling was decided 2-1 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. "Today's DC Circuit Court ruling completely validates the Department's position," said the Pentagon's top spokesman, Sean Parnell. "The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude's design to prevent it from performing national-security functions that the Department deems contractually authorized and necessary," Judge Gregory G. Katsas wrote in the majority opinion. Both Judge Katsas and Judge Neomi Rao, who formed the majority, were nominated by Mr. Trump. The sole dissenter, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, was nominated by Republican President George H. W. Bush. The judges said that they have "no reason to doubt" that Anthropic acts with "noble intentions" in restricting Claude, specifically with respect to its concerns around privacy and AI safety. But they said the definition of a supply chain risk in this context hinges "on what Anthropic does, not why Anthropic does it."