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I think the lower courts will easily find this is far beyond what the statue allows (and a free speech violation) but this Supreme Court will be eager to get back on Trump's good side and will stay the lower courts injuction.

That means at least a year to get it resolved, in the mean time practically all enterprise users will need to migrate off.

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I don’t think it’s actually going to be a big deal. Anthropic’s response to Pete Kegsbreath basically said the only limitation they expect is DoD contractors can’t use it on DoD missions, not a general ban. Now that’s not nothing but there’s a whole business world hungry to generate insane amounts of code for no reason, they’re ready to collect the token tax

I would be shocked if any of the liberal enterprises move off them due to this. Maybe if they have explicit contracts around it but I have no idea why else they would.

Any company that does business with the military will be prohibited from being a customer. That's basically all the biggest companies, who will all choose to keep their multi-billion dollar military contracts and simply use codex instead of Claude. So Anthropic would be prevented from selling to all the biggest companies, many of whom have already adopted Claude.

That would be pretty tough.

they will move off it for explicitly their defense contracts which are often just one part of their business

What motivation would the Supreme Court have to get “back on Trumps good side?” If anything, after his recent name calling of them I’d think they’d be less inclined to appease him. The can’t be fired.

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