Discussion

• @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.

• @hlntnr Helen Toner on x

  One thing the Pentagon is very likely underestimating: how much Anthropic cares about what *future Claudes* will make of this situation. Because of how Claude is trained, what principles/values/priorities the company demonstrate here could shape its “character” for a long time.

• @chrisvanhollen Senator Chris Van Hollen on x

  Trump & Hegseth are punishing an American company because it won't give them the tools to conduct mass surveillance on the American people. This is Big Brother on steroids & it should scare the hell out of us. Our liberties are at stake, we cannot let this go unchecked. [image]

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Anthropic/DoD situation: On surface, may seem obvious for VCs to want @DarioAmodei to cave. More revenue. But also an argument that, by caving, Anthropic risks becoming too reliant on govt revenue/partner that could be politically fickle. And maybe a pariah if things go bad.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  I oppose the nationalization of frontier artificial intelligence firms because I think that governments (not just the current admin!) will be less responsible with it than the firms, provided the firms face competitive market incentives, basic liability, and similar.

• @dkaushik96 Divyansh Kaushik on x

  Are we seriously going to label Anthropic a supply chain risk but are totally fine with Alibaba/Qwen, Deepseek, Baidu, etc? What are we doing here?

• @lizthegrey.com Liz Fong-Jones on bluesky

  It's not over until it's over.  So far Anthropic is holding firm.  The change to what safeguards would be built into future models is an orthogonal issue. www.axios.com/2026/02/25/a...

• r/claudexplorers r on reddit

  Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

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  Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

• @michaelsobolik Michael Sobolik on x

  Treating patriotic American companies like Chinese Communist Party-controlled companies will not help America win the AI race. [image]

• @yrechtman Yoni Rechtman on x

  This is third world/Chinese style market intervention. Whether or not Anthropic should power offensive capabilities for DoD is not the point.

• @davidlawler10 Dave Lawler on x

  NEW: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic. -Asked Boeing, Lockheed to analyze their use of Claude ahead of a likely “supply chain risk” designation. -Deadline for decision is Friday. W/ @m_ccuri and @demarest_colin https://www.axios.com/...

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  This does not sound like conclusive evidence that they are in fact going to go that direction. Could also just be assessing the potential damage of a supply chain risk designation (which would be major). https://x.com/...

• @cbotheeggman @cbotheeggman on x

  Blacklisting AI companies because they aren't evil enough is not really the kind of AI regulation most Americans are looking for.

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  I encourage the Pentagon to check with a wide variety of companies on exactly how doing this would go. It would be enlightening.

• @jeffrsebo Jeff Sebo on x

  Gotta ask what the point of the US winning the AI race is if the government is going to coerce companies into propping up an automated police state either way.

• @demarest_colin Colin Demarest on x

  👀 The Pentagon today probed two of the world's largest defense contractors — $BA and $LMT — about their relationship with Anthropic. Next up? Questions posed to “all the traditional primes.” @axios, with @DavidLawler10 and @m_ccuri https://www.axios.com/...