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U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply-chain risk
Sep 25, 2026SOURCE: cnbc.com
SO WHAT
Inside the thousand-day window, legal security gating narrows pathways for competitors, accelerating centralized control while the old system hardens around AI procurement.
A 2-1 decision affirms DoD’s designation of Anthropic under supply-chain risk authorities. The inversion is underway: model access becomes a security boundary, not a market choice.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.