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• @kevinbankston Kevin Bankston on x

  Hoping Anthropic's reply is “see you in court” on any bogus supply chain risk designation or DPA invocation.

• @tonystark Tony Stark on bluesky

  Severe implications for industry writ large and suspect will end going to SCOTUS.  [embedded post]

• @thinkyparts @thinkyparts on bluesky

  Anthropic should walk away.  Their brand, I suspect what they really believe, is totally incompatible with with this.  —  Knowing that $PLTR uses Anthropic though, makes ya wonder if the urgency is about Iran.  [embedded post]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  Invoking the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to make a version of Claude that can conduct mass domestic surveillance and operate murderbots is psychotic [embedded post]

• @sashat Sasha Talebi on bluesky

  They need a fledgling predictive text program to help them do more wars.  🚀🚀🚀

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  Anthropic's models are so good, the U.S. military is threatening them into letting their AI be used to create weapons and for global surveillance.  —  This is ironically a great sales pitch for Claude Code.

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  Grok is a steaming pile of dogshit. What could possibly go wrong. https://www.axios.com/... [image]

• @seniormcgeezer @seniormcgeezer on bluesky

  Big Brother wants to use Ai for mass surveillance, and  —  making autonomous weapons of war.  We can't let any  —  Ai company sell it's product to use against people.  —  www.axios.com/2026/02/23/h...  [image]

• @dburbach David Burbach on bluesky

  Grok, as you probably know, is the AI built into Twitter which last year started calling itself MechaHitler and is the leading AI at generating revenge porn and underage-looking waifus.  —  Are DOD employees held harmless if Grok pushes NSFW content onto our work machines? [embed…

• @jamespmcleod.ca James McLeod on bluesky

  The US is going to bomb a country because the AI says they're gay.  [embedded post]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  It had previously agreed to the “all unlawful use” standard.  [embedded post]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  Sometimes my wife asks me why instead of seeing movies like Terminator or Black Mirror as a cautionary tales, tech companies are actually trying to build that future?  —  That's when I tell her it's worse because Skynet never referred to itself as “MechaHitler” before being given…

• @vulgareconomics Mike Isaacson on bluesky

  I've said it once and I'll say it again: I cannot wait for someone to exfiltrate military intelligence with a Tweet [embedded post]

• r/TrueReddit r on reddit

  Inside Anthropic's existential negotiations with the Pentagon

• r/singularity r on reddit

  xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems, Anthropic Given Ultimatum

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

• r/Fauxmoi r on reddit

  In What Could Go Wrong News: Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

• r/technology r on reddit

  Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits

• r/law r on reddit

  Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

• r/politics r on reddit

  Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  +100 as a very, very proud american citizen i stand with dario amodei and appreciate his willingness to defend the civil liberties of other american citizens 🇺🇸

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  key takeaway to me right here you dont make this much noise if you have all the leverage already [image]

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  According to the Pentagon, Anthropic is: 1. Woke; 2. Such a national security risk that they need to be regulated in a severe manner usually reserved for foreign adversary firms; 3. So essential for the military that they need to be commandeered using wartime authority. [image]

• @mckaywrigley Mckay Wrigley on x

  principles matter. show up when it matters. if you believe in liberty and privacy then say something. and if you *want* to say something but don't because of “business” reasons then you should really consider if your priorities are in check (looking at you, silicon valley).

• @mckaywrigley Mckay Wrigley on x

  as a very, very proud american citizen i stand with dario amodei and appreciate his willingness to defend the civil liberties of other american citizens 🇺🇸 [image]

• @ajaxsinger Constantine on bluesky

  Either Anthropic refuses and wins in court or Anthropic refuses and wins in the court of public opinion by standing strong and cementing their rep as the only *decent* AI company.  There is literally no margin for Anthropic in submitting.  [embedded post]

• @bartenderhemry @bartenderhemry on bluesky

  This leftist nanny-state meddling with private enterprise is out of control [embedded post]

• @vitalik.ca Vitalik Buterin on bluesky

  It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences.  —  (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of “no fully...  https://firefly.social/post/ff- aa1b6a1b4b184f2a9b006c50246…

• @peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky

  So it reads to me as if Hegseth is bluffing with absolutely no cards and it's chud dominance politics versus genuine principal and the nerds have a straight flush.  [embedded post]

• @shoe @shoe on bluesky

  This is how SpaceX is nationalized.  Thanks for the helpful demonstration! [embedded post]

• @self.agency Daniel Sieradski on bluesky

  the government forcing a corporation to violate its charter in order to make murder robots is in the constitution, right?  [embedded post]

• @mariabustillos.com Maria Bustillos on bluesky

  Wait just a second now, who is doing the corrupting here [embedded post]

• @neutral.zone @neutral.zone on bluesky

  Sounds like they might be .. out of alignment [embedded post]

• @dillo.media @dillo.media on bluesky

  bond villain ass “give me your claude immediately!  😡”

• @lajacq Jacquie on bluesky

  I can't get over what an insane ask this is when the DoD is in an openly corrupt partnership with a major competitor of Anthropic.  Did Elon ask for this specifically? [embedded post]

• @henrysnow Henry Snow on bluesky

  how far does the DPA get them? can they (not just legally but practically) force them, for example, to make the model more amenable to military use (this would be really bad)? there's a lot Claude won't do! [embedded post]

• @tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky

  Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would:  —  1) bar the company from government contracts  —  2) bar any government contractor from using Claude  —  3) pressure other businesses to consider Claude insecure  —  Meanwhile, invoking the DPA would nationalize Claude, but n…

• @socdoneleft @socdoneleft on bluesky

  We need to do this in 2029 for everything Musk owns.  —  X?  Defense Production Act'd.  —  Tesla?  DPA'd.  —  Neuralink?  DPA'd.  —  Starlink?  DPA'd.  —  (Hell, the last one one actually makes sense, see Russian drones!) [embedded post]

• @joedunman Joe Dunman on bluesky

  This regime only operates by threats.  Empty ones, mostly, but threats nonetheless.  [embedded post]

• @jtlg James Grimmelmann on bluesky

  There is a great deal of schadenfreude in watching every AI company's carefully crafted alignment scheme to avoid existential risk do a faceplant on first contact with the most obvious features of the society it operates in.  [embedded post]

• @bencollins Tim Onion on bluesky

  Seizing the means of production but in a Real American Patriot Republican way.  [embedded post]

• @regimecpa @regimecpa on bluesky

  “Claude is so much better than grok that we need it to kill people” [embedded post]

• @dburbach David Burbach on bluesky

  Personal opinion/question, but, why does DOD need to use AI for “mass surveillance of US citizens”, which is consistently one of the sticking points cited?  NSA related? [embedded post]

• @darinself.com Darin Self on bluesky

  If only someone could have told these guys that democracy helps stop expropriation [embedded post]

• @jm-mcgrath John Michael McGrath on bluesky

  Perhaps the only thing scarier than Claude being used for murderbots and panopticon surveillance is Hegseth et al. opting for Grok, instead.  [embedded post]

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  just a literal shakedown [embedded post]

• @scriban @scriban on bluesky

  Given Elon's generally poor mental health and drug addictions, as well as his avowed white supremacy, and personal and commercial affinity for America's adversaries, Grok is going to be an incredible intelligence resource for our enemies.  [embedded post]

• r/Military r on reddit

  Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on x

  Honestly did not think we would, short of AGI, see the US government threaten to expropriate a frontier AI lab if it placed conditions on the sale of its technology. https://x.com/...

• @jimsciutto Jim Sciutto on x

  Why are these two things red lines for DOD? “Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.”

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on x

  Military-Civil Fusion: 'Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting ... the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs.' https://www.axios.com/...

• @davidlawler10 Dave Lawler on x

  @DanLamothe @m_ccuri One of our sources (not admin) said it'd be a tough case for Anthropic to win. But we couldn't find much precedent for this kind of adversarial use or this kind of legal fight, if it happens. Won't claim any personal expertise here though!

• @davidlawler10 Dave Lawler on x

  NEW: Hegseth gave Anthropic til Friday to lift all restrictions on how military uses Claude. His threat: Invoking the Defense Production Act to force Dario's hand, or else blacklisting Claude. Meeting was “not warm and fuzzy.” With the great @m_ccuri https://www.axios.com/...

• @niceandinnocent @niceandinnocent on bluesky

  Didn't China just do this without asking? [embedded post]

• @brockmeyer @brockmeyer on bluesky

  This has got to be one of the more insane things I've read about this insane administration [embedded post]

• @maxberger Max Berger on bluesky

  The Trump regime is using AI for mass surveillance of Americans, and plans to integrate AI into their weapons systems.  They are trying to extort Anthropic for refusing to go along.  —  The oligarchs and their would-be King want to make human beings like us obsolete.

• @emptywheel @emptywheel on bluesky

  There's a lot going on.  —  But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention.  —  Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic.  —  www…

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

• r/Anthropic r on reddit

  Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  “Murder is coming to AI.  But not to Claude.”  [embedded post]

• @bwjones @bwjones on bluesky

  I would feel better about this if the Pentagon and the National Reconnaissance Office also told SpaceX that it would invoke the Defense Production Act or label SpaceX a “supply chain risk” given their CEO is a security risk.  [embedded post]

• @coachfinstock @coachfinstock on bluesky

  Claude Coders gonna be the downfall of America.  Like either way in this fight, which is pretty funny [embedded post]

• @cara.city @cara.city on bluesky

  in layman's terms: let the AI kill people or we'll torpedo your company's ability to sell to the government [embedded post]

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  I'm with Vitalik. Anthropic will win a lot of fans if it does not back down. As part of my work with @blevlabs I had it run on all AI posts here on X today and had it write me a short essay on the AI news of the day, and the fight between the Pentagon and Anthropic is news

• @vitalikbuterin @vitalikbuterin on x

  It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences. (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of “no fully autonomous weapons” and “no mass surveillance of Americans”.

• @sarahlaughed Sarah Dylan Breuer on bluesky

  Here's hoping other tech companies start insisting that their products not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or launching a weapon with no human involved.  [embedded post]

• NewsMax.com James Morley III on x

  Report: Hegseth Sets Deadline for Anthropic on AI Safeguards

• @zhugeex.com Daniel Ahmad on bluesky

  Anthropic has drawn two red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons.  —  In other words, Hegseth wants full access to the model for the mass surveillance of Americans and to build killer robots.  [embedded post]