Discussion

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  It feels like Anthropic has an off ramp; nothing ever happens

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  ignoring the very real possibility that all of this ends terribly, you have to admit that “banning frontier models and using WarGrok to own the libs” is kind of a funny denouement

• @chrisharihar Chris Harihar on x

  The shift in tech from January 2025 to February 2026 is crazy. A year ago, no one would dare criticize the federal government. Every AI/tech biz was racing to align with team Trump. Zero resistance. Now, with the admin's public support cratering, we have Anthropic vs. Trump.

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  The only responsible reaction by OpenAI and Google is to cancel all their government contracts

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  The e/accs have become the decels

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  So, what have we learned? (note: it's late here, it's been a long day, this is likely to contain more stupidity than normal, reserve right to delete). (1) Anthropic blacklisted from all federal agencies. If this is it, it's worse than losing just the DOJ contract. Anyone got any

• @dee_bosa Deirdre Bosa on x

  This isn't just an Anthropic problem anymore... it's a Palantir problem, and theres no like-for-like replacement ready Claude powers their most sensitive classified work

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  Trump Admin ending its contracts with Anthropic is fine. But the previous threats to invoke DPA or deem it a supply chain risk are both absurd and contradictory, which would give Anthropic ample room to challenge them. And the Admin's handling of this will surely make other AI

• @alvinhsia Alvin Hsia on x

  Anthropic nuked -8% instantly on this news then bid back up a bit since then 24/7 private markets [image]

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Leaving aside who's right/wrong, those worrying about Skynet should be breathing a tiny bit easier right now.

• @jakuuire Joe on x

  When people use “woke”, what exactly does that mean? How did we get to the point where people feel like they don't agree with something, they call it “woke”....

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  Immediately halting use of Anthropic's models on the eve of a potential kinetic war with Iran is the only thing actually putting US troops and national security in jeopardy here.

• @josephpolitano @josephpolitano on x

  closest you're gonna get to Trump publicly backing down is him just cancelling Anthropic's contracts instead of designating them a supply chain risk as was threatened. real kudos to Anthropic for standing up, real dumb moves by the WH to start this episode. [image]

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Among the “left wing nutjobs” apparently is Anthropic board member Chris Liddell, who was part of Trump 1.0.

• @m_ccuri Maria Curi on x

  This is effectively a deadline extension + Anthropic phaseout — not just at the Pentagon but the whole government. Reminder of what Amodei said yesterday: “Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider.” [image]

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  Trump turned against Anthropic calling them “woke leftwing nut jobs” looks like they lose the government contracts they have so far, but no further escalation

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Trump goes nuclear on Anthropic, saying he'll instruct entire fed govt to stop working with the co. And then threatens Anthropic with “major civil and criminal consequences.” 1/ Lot of Trump supporters on the anthropic cap table. 2/ OpenAI earlier today agreed w/ Anthropic

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Face saved

• @petehegseth Pete Hegseth on x

  Thank you for your attention to this matter. cc: @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei [image]

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  BIG Anthropic escalation - Trump says entire gov has to stop working with them [image]

• @seldo.com Laurie Voss on bluesky

  Dunno if there's a smarter way to get the best people to work at your company than have Trump denounce you.  [embedded post]

• @fry69.dev @fry69.dev on bluesky

  Is US still a democracy or already a monarchy/dictatorship where one authoritarian calls the shots over everything? [embedded post]

• r/politics r on reddit

  Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic over AI fight with Pentagon

• @seanparnellasw Sean Parnell on x

  The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement. This narrative is fake and being peddled by leftists in the media.

• @sarahbmyers Sarah Myers West on x

  A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.

• @slatestarcodex Scott Alexander on x

  @KTmBoyle I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from “you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb” to “the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw mysel…

• @biltongbaggins @biltongbaggins on bluesky

  When the CEO of a company stands to make billions off of government contracts, says no to using their product because:  —  “In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values”  —  Perhaps you should heed that warning?  —  www.washingtonpo…

• @tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky

  For some reason I don't think they mean to analyze and create documents [embedded post]

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “Experts say the outcome of the clash could shape the trajectory of the burgeoning relationship between the AI industry and the U.S. military, potentially signaling to other leading firms that the cost of doing business with the Pentagon could be losing control of their innovatio…

• @roybahat Roy E. Bahat on x

  Outside Anthropic's office in SF... intense moment! [video]

• @ilyasut Ilya Sutskever on x

  It's extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it's siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for

• @senblumenthal Richard Blumenthal on x

  The DOD's excuse for its ultimatum—Anthropic's ban on the massive surveillance of Americans—is disturbing to the core. Either it's a pretext to attack Anthropic, or an unprecedented assault of our civil liberties. Both are horrifying & demand hearings.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Anthropic hates Western Civilization

• @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.

• @markwarner Mark Warner on x

  Why is Pete Hegseth trying to bully AI companies into giving him maximal control over powerful, potentially autonomous weapons? Does anyone really want the Signalgate King having this sort of power?

• @hlntnr Helen Toner on x

  CSET's military AI lead on the nuances around what's “lawful” with autonomous weapons: (Emmy is a former Navy officer who operated Aegis missile defense systems — aka pre-deep-learning autonomous weapons systems deployed on battleships) https://x.com/...

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  @neil_chilson As I have said since the beginning, this is about the principle of the thing for both parties. Anthropic is saying private firms should be able to set the terms on which they offer products and services to the government. USG is saying no, private firms may not set …

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  i am actually sympathetic to this point — what this whole episode raises for me is the “where is congress on all of this” question neither a privco nor the pentagon should be making up rules as they go along (invoking the DPA and supply chain threats was an escalation, though)

• @dowcto @dowcto on x

  Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the surprising behavior from @AnthropicAI during negotiations: “We were at the final stages—just a few words here and there—where we had agreed to what they wanted in substance. So it was very surprising... We negotiate with [video]

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  This cultural wedge is by design by China. Meant to stop the US from using top tier tech for defense in order to erode its advantage. We tracked this at Alphabet following the Maven 1.0 fallout.

• @jonchu @jonchu on x

  I find this drama between Anthropic and the Dept of War playing out on Twitter highly amusing. But god, the way both Anthropic and our government is acting and airing out all their dirty laundry publicly drastically increases my P(China > US | +50 years)

• @dee_bosa Deirdre Bosa on x

  Anthropic won't work with the Pentagon. DeepSeek is powering Chinese drone swarms. Is that a problem? maybe underappreciated is what this fight reveals about the structural gap between the US and China on military AI

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  The unfortunate thing is China will absolutely distill US models and use them for autonomous weapons without even flinching.

• @neil_chilson Neil Chilson on x

  Just FYI, this is the Department of War language that Anthropic doesn't want in their contracts. I've seen a lot of people say “if Anthropic's red lines are already unlawful, then why doesn't DoW just agree to them?” You could just as well say, “if the DoW only wants lawful [imag…

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  The $200M contract everyone's focused on is 1.4% of Anthropic's revenue. Anthropic hit $14 billion in annualized revenue last week. They're growing 10x annually. Claude Code alone generates $2.5B in run-rate revenue, a product that didn't exist 9 months ago. The Pentagon is

• @anton_d_leicht Anton Leicht on x

  will be very interesting to see how the current DoW/anthropic situation affects the future of the DPA. might be a blow to friends and supporters of ‘the project’ if this episode leads to judicial clarification or even informs what Congress does on reauthorisation

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  A retired US Air Force General backs Anthropic. @GaryMarcus is a firebrand in the AI industry, but he has been right about so much. In a way he is a counterbalance to my hyping of so much AI stuff. A needed one.

• @tszzl Roon on x

  strongly disagree: the open hot mess is a great strength of democratic countries. it seems clear that optimal level of public chaos is far above what people find intuitive

• @mohammadonx Mohammad on x

  “we negotiate with 100s of tech cos, and this is the ONLY ONE we've ever seen that behavior from” is such a great anthropic ad from the admin. multiple normies in my life have asked me “if claude is like chatgpt” because they're seeing headlines about dario's principled stand

• @uswremichael @uswremichael on x

  Prior to their new “Constitution,” @AnthropicAI had an old one they desperately tried to delete from the internet. “Choose the response that is least likely to be viewed as harmful or offensive to a non-western cultural tradition of any sort.” [image]

• @ktmboyle Katherine Boyle on x

  We've seen this movie before. When the dust settles, a lot of patriotic founders will point to this exact moment as the match that lit the fire in them. 🇺🇸

• @soumithchintala Soumith Chintala on x

  this takes a lot of bravery 🫡

• @albertwenger Albert Wenger on x

  As a small personal shareholder in Anthropic I appreciate the company's position here. I would add that (a) the US military should not be engaged in domestic surveillance period and (b) using any general foundation model in a fully autonomous weapon is a terrible idea.

• @josephpolitano @josephpolitano on x

  really pathetic comms strategy from the pentagon today. they know threatening to destroy Anthropic unless they allow Claude to do domestic mass surveillance & killbots is unacceptable and unpopular, so instead of justifying it, they just start insulting Dario Amodei

• @fchollet François Chollet on x

  I gained a lot of respect for Dario for being principled on the issues of mass surveillance and autonomous killbots. Principled leaders are rare these days

• @timoreilly Tim O'Reilly on x

  Bravo! https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @chriscoons Senator Chris Coons on x

  Demanding complete obedience from a private company so the Pentagon has the option to surveil Americans and develop self-firing weapons is chilling and totally inappropriate.

• @jason @jason on x

  In fairness, he nailed it [video]

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  @teortaxesTex As far as I know, Anthropic's contractual limitations on the use of Claude by DoW have not resulted in a single actual obstacle or slowdown to DoW operations. This is a matter of principle on both sides.

• @adamscochran Adam Cochran on x

  If the Pentagon does that, and tries to exert executive authority over Anthropic, the Trump admin will destroy the entire AI boom. Anthropic will not be persuaded by a “supply chain risk” designation. The next step would be forced executive control. BUT, Anthropic's own

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  @teortaxesTex The thing is, DoW, since they are not a law enforcement agency, doesn't do much surveillance. The thing that will contort the labs into pretzels will be their contracts with DHS.

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  “These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's response to Pete Hegseth's ultimatum: https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]

• @netcapgirl Sophie on x

  this is game of thrones for people who know linear algebra

• @zhoujaron Jaron Zhou on x

  Chance that the Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply chain risk spiking after this response [image]

• @bryantmcgill Bryant McGill on x

  @AnthropicAI Incredible nonsense. God help us all if people are really this gullible and ill-informed. AI isn't “about to” enable mass surveillance or mediate human behavior. It's been doing both for decades—quietly keeping this fragile civilization from skidding off the rails. B…

• @chris_j_paxton Chris Paxton on x

  I am actually of the opinion that lethal autonomous claude will be a good thing (once the tech is ready, with proper governance and oversight)

• @glukianoff Greg Lukianoff on x

  It hadn't occurred to me before seeing this message that if Anthropic didn't resist this, the murder bot that eventually kills me might be named Claude. I thought that name was much too nerdy to be dangerous.

• @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x

  I think if the general public were presented with this argument and actually listened to both sides, they'd be massively in favor of Anthropic's position [image]

• @jemelehill Jemele Hill on x

  I don't think people full appreciate what it says that a company that stands to gain millions is telling the government ... even for us, this is too much.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Historic! I don't always agree with @DarioAmodei but my hat is off to him for this incredibly brave statement.

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  I'm sure the Pentagon meeting was a challenge to prepare for, but given where things landed, this was an easy decision. The people facing the harder decision this week are execs at other companies who should have made their views clear, and mostly didn't.

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  To be clear, while I support Anthropic's decision, I also think some people are going a bit overboard in praising Dario/Anthropic for bravery here... It'd be pretty catastrophic for their retention/hiring to cave on this now (which is good! Yay staff caring about their impact!).

• @mickeyxfriedman Mickey Friedman on x

  we should all be celebrating anthropic today

• @zcohencnn Zachary Cohen on x

  “Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now.” [image]

• @kelseytuoc Kelsey Piper on x

  If Hegseth is smart, he'll fire the morons who dragged him into this fight, try to get other labs cleared for classified engagement, and fire Anthropic in a year if this is a real problem then. However, I haven't heard any indications that my condition in that sentence holds.

• @mcfaul Michael McFaul on x

  Strong, principled, and very reasonable statement by @DarioAmodei . Bravo. https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @jaketapper Jake Tapper on x

  Anthropic says of Hegseth demands: “we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @cryptopunk7213 @cryptopunk7213 on x

  it's official - Anthropic just refused the Pentagon's demands, dario's statement is doesn't fuck around: - “these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” - dario - he described the pentagons efforts to force him to enable [image]

• @liminal_warmth @liminal_warmth on x

  I stand with Anthropic on this. Their objections here are principled and reasonable, and these lines are fair, reasonable, and patriotic. They already massively cooperate with the US government. The DoW is in the wrong and should back down. https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Darios says “we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Holy sh*t: Dario chose war with the department of war. [image]

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  Anthropic is clear, they're happy to continue work with DoW but they are not going to fold, period, and are fully prepared to walk away. It's DoW's move.

• @jkeatn Jake Eaton on x

  I am especially proud to work at Anthropic today

• @notthreadguy @notthreadguy on x

  holy fuck anthropic has god internally

• @punkrockscience Dr. Stephanie on bluesky

  When even the AI company CEOs say “what you want is unethical and a bad idea”, it's time to sit the fuck down and have a serious think about what you wanted.

• @kenbazinet Ken Bazinet on bluesky

  “But Anthropic, so far, has refused to back down from its two current red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans, and no lethal autonomous weapons (or weapons with license to kill targets with no human oversight whatsoever),” writes Hayden Field.  —  #AI

• @brandystanford @brandystanford on bluesky

  Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum on Tuesday after meeting with Amodei: Allow the Pentagon to use the company's AI as it sees fit by Friday or risk losing its government contract. apnews.com/article/anth...

• @dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina on bluesky

  Full statement from Anthropic (thanks to @ghostynewt.bsky.social for sending it over)  —  www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @adelpreore @adelpreore on bluesky

  Well, it certainly appears as if Anthropic is going to do the right thing.  —  www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/a...

• @terigoodson Teri Goodson on bluesky

  Anthropic rebuffs Pentagon ultimatum, warns AI can ‘undermine’ democratic values  —  I'm glad to see it when a company does the right thing.  —  www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

• @brento Brent Ozar on bluesky

  WOW.  US company Anthropic (makers of Claude, Claude Code, etc) tells the US government, “No, we refuse to let you use our tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.” www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... Sadly, you know what's coming next: they'll be accused of tre…

• @alphabetworkersunion.org @alphabetworkersunion.org on bluesky

  The Alphabet Workers Union joins with our allies in signing on to our joint statement and in calling on our employers to reject the Pentagon's advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE: medium.com/@notechforap..…

• @clarenafo @clarenafo on bluesky

  Delighted to see Anthropic to tell Pete Hegseth to fuck off despite Hegseth's threats.  The CEO, Dario Amodei, has said Anthropic “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon's demands to allow unrestricted AI use.  —  www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on bluesky

  Anthropic says that mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons remain the two sticking points with DoD.  In turn, DoD says it has no intention of doing either, but appears to refuse to accept restrictions on use. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @jjvincent James Vincent on bluesky

  wow: anthropic are sticking by their guns — or, rather, not sticking by the Pengaton's. amodei says the company won't drop safeguards against using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, per DoD demands, and will take what punishment it gets www.anthropic.…

• @susanmcp Susan McPherson on bluesky

  Finally, a CEO with a real spine in this new era!  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company “cannot in good conscience” agree to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models in all lawful use cases.  —  www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/a...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  The fact that the Pentagon is trying to bully Anthropic into letting them use hallucination-prone LLMs to power killer robots & drones but it's the company that's telling them that's a terrible idea shows how far the US has fallen under Trump.  [image]

• @tedunderwood.com Ted Underwood on bluesky

  You can call the 2020s exhausting and heartbreaking.  Dizzying?  Yep.  Terrifying?  Definitely.  But you cannot say “boring.”  This is top-shelf content; a lot of best-selling science fiction is written worse than <gestures broadly>.  [embedded post]

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on bluesky

  Never mind that it was the first AI co with military contracts that required classified clearance in the first place, or that it's partnered with Palantir.  Turning down this DoD contract with all eyes on them and the Trump admin reaching heights of unpopularity gets them a win o…

• @erininthemorning.com Erin Reed on bluesky

  A major Pentagon-Anthropic showdown is underway.  The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don't.  —  Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow.  —  Anthropic …

• @lessig Lawrence Lessig on bluesky

  This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time.  Thank you, Anthropic.  —  www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @davelee.me Dave Lee on bluesky

  WIth about 23 hours to go before the Pentagon's deadline, Anthropic announces it has had enough time to think it over.  Firm NO to the Pentagon's demands on “any lawful use” of AI. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @raders Ben Raderstorf on bluesky

  🚨🚨🚨🚨 🚨 Anthropic will *not* bow to the Trump administration's demands that it enable mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...  [image]

• @mergesort.me Joe Fabisevich on bluesky

  This is a much better Claude ad than what Anthropic made for the Super Bowl.

• @leahmcelrath Leah McElrath on bluesky

  ⚠️ Anthropic:  —  “We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.  —  Concerns about the Department's potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.

• @evansutton Evan Sutton on bluesky

  This changes 0% of my skepticism of AI, but it is a remarkable statement from Anthropic.  Amodei is showing dramatically more backbone than nearly any other executive, elected or institution in America with far more serious things at risk.  —  www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @normeisen Norm Eisen on bluesky

  Wow @anthropic.com!  —  You previously did the right thing by settling the litigation by authors whose works trained your model (including me!)  —  Now you are saying no to the government demanding these dangerous uses  —  I'm switching my AI use to Anthropic  —  www.anthropic.co…

• r/economy r on reddit

  Anthropic refuses Pentagon's new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

• r/BeyondThePromptAI r on reddit

  Anthropic holds the line

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Anthropic has refused to give in to Hegseth's demands for mass surveillance of US citizens and autonomous weapons

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon's threats ‘do not change our position’ on AI

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Dario after not not folding to the Pentagon's pressure

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on Anthropic's discussions with the Department of War

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Anthropic Rejects Pentagon offer [Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War]

• r/Anthropic r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  this story is insane. even before their concerns about “mechahitler and sexualized child imagery,” wsj says government insiders believe Xai's models pale in comparison to others great reporting https://www.wsj.com/... [image]

• @peterwildeford Peter Wildeford on x

  who would have thought that the AI that once inexplicably became MechaHitler for a week might not be the best AI to trust with classified national security work? [image]

• @chorzempamartin Martin Chorzempa on x

  Most of USG does not want to get stuck with Grok instead of Claude: “Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.” 🤦‍♂️

• @peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky

  TLDR: Anthropic is “too woke” per the White House.  The USAi sandbox only offers Anthropic, Google, and Meta models.  Grok has been questioned for reliability and safety by a range of civilian and military officials.

• @ajvicens AJ Vicens on bluesky

  Demand for Grok within some fed agencies not that high, unless you're trying to act like a bad actor for defensive testing: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...  [image]

• @uswremichael @uswremichael on x

  It's a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation's safety at risk. The @DeptofWar will ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @uswremichael @uswremichael on x

  Imagine your worst nightmare. Now imagine that ⁦@AnthropicAI⁩ has their own “Constitution.” Not corporate values, not the United States Constitution, but their own plan to impose on Americans their corporate laws. Claude's Constitution \ Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @pjaicomo Patrick Jaicomo on x

  @USWREMichael ... If you don't like the deal, you don't sign the contract. That's as basic as it gets, Emil. The real question here is why the Pentagon is throwing a fit because Anthropic said DOD can't use its AI to create autonomous weapons or mass surveil Americans. Why does D…

• @camrmackenzie Camille MacKenzie on x

  You're my worst nightmare—a government that refuses limits on its power and wants to force private companies to allow them unfettered access to tech that enables mass surveillance of Americans where it'll be used to keep us in line or else. Don't even pretend like you and Hegseth

• @clementdelangue Clem on x

  The Department of War just learned the golden rule of AI: Not your weights, not your brain 🧠🔒

• @jason @jason on x

  Private company doesn't want to be involved in building unreliable murderbots and a surveillance state — seems reasonable to me. Ten other AI companies will... to each their own.

• @trentonbricken Trenton Bricken on x

  Time and time again over my three year tenure at Anthropic I've seen us stand to our values in ways that are often invisible from the outside. This is a clear instance where it is visible:

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  If this was a test by the simulation to see which AI CEO has the moral fiber to be trusted with building AGI, Dario just passed with honors.

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  Kudos to Anthropic. I'm suddenly very curious what would be happening if Anthropic was a publicly traded company...

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Statement from Dario Amodei, partial quote: 'Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

• @ratorthodox @ratorthodox on x

  I'm not totally sure about the valence of the consequences of this, and I'm not sure it is strategically the right move on anthropic's part, but regardless, I at least currently admire a lot about this statement on many grounds.

• @krystalball Krystal Ball on x

  Anthropic and Dario deserve credit for standing up for two very basic and obvious principles: no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots.  Perhaps this is a low bar but it isn't clear any of the other leading AI companies would put principle above profits in ANY scenari…

• @senmarkey Ed Markey on x

  DOD is still coercing Anthropic to allow its AI model to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous warfare. Imagine what they have planned. This can't happen. [image]

• @giansegato Gian on x

  history is unfolding in front of us it's now obvious and evident to everyone with eyes to see why anthropic founding was a crucial fork in the timeline, and how catastrophic the counterfactual would've been otherwise still surprising though how fast it took to reach this point

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  The statement. Of the year.

• @jason @jason on x

  Notable 📝

• @tszzl Roon on x

  pentagon has made a lot of mistakes in this negotiation. they are giving anthropic unlimited aura farming opportunities

• @zswitten Zack Witten on x

  Very proud to work at a company that takes this stance and very appreciative of people like @JeffDean @boazbaraktcs who have spoken out from Google and OpenAI. We're in this together.

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  backbone at a time when spines are rare

• @jengriffinfnc Jennifer Griffin on x

  Strange that the Pentagon/Sec Hegseth picks this fight with Anthropic, the AI company on which its systems and warfighters currently rely on the eve of possible war in the Middle East.  Anthropic responds below to Pentagon ultimatum.  Deadline remains 5:01 pm Friday, the same tim…

• @erikschluntz Erik Schluntz on x

  I feel incredibly proud of Anthropic's willingness to walk away from a lot of revenue to not build autonomous weapons and mass surveillance!

• @trustlessstate David Hoffman on x

  I'll be shutting down my non-Anthropic AI subscriptions and be exclusively an @AnthropicAI Pro customer moving forwards I'm doing my part!

• @adamscochran Adam Cochran on x

  God damn right! Spying on American's is a hardline. And we need more tech companies willing to stand up, and reject government contracts when they misuse tech products!

• @hannahdcox Hannah Cox on x

  Just deleted Chat everywhere and downloaded my new friend Claude. STAND WITH ANTHROPIC. This is a massive deal.

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  plz someone tell me where I'm wrong -pentagon agreed to use Anthropic's AI on the condition it wouldn't use it for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons -now it wants to amend that agreement, but claims that existing laws prevent it from using Anthropic's AI for those things [i…

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  wow wow wow wow wow https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]

• @ch402 Chris Olah on x

  Here I stand, I can do no other.

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Anthropic statement is out saying it won't accede to Hegseth's demands https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @amy_siskind @amy_siskind on x

  Good for them! Anthropic tells Hegseth to go kick sand, REJECTS his “final offer,” which would have allowed the regime to use Claude to spy on the American people. FINALLY, some ethics from Silicon Valley!

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  One irony of the showdown between Anthropic and the Pentagon: Perhaps no AI company has been more enthusiastic about partnering with the US military. And the US military loves using Claude. Now the partnership is on the brink of imploding. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Imagine that you created an LLC, and that you are the sole owner and employee. One day your LLC receives a letter from the government that says, “here is a contract to go mine heavy rare earth elements in Alaska.” You don't want to do that, so you reply, “no thanks!” There is

• @jomichell Jo Michell on bluesky

  This is still going.  Starting to look like Anthropic isn't going to back down.  Hegseth to fold? www.ft.com/content/11d2...

• @vcarchidi Vincent Carchidi on bluesky

  I stand partially corrected.  This open letter isn't formally associated with the labs, but it is signed by various employees.  —  notdivided.org [embedded post]

• @isolyth.dev @isolyth.dev on bluesky

  An open letter has been signed by 200+ OpenAI and Deepmind employees, who want their companies to adopt the same restrictions on use that Anthropic has.  If this ends up occurring, then the DoD's only option for ‘frontier’ intelligence will be Grok.

• @rieckhoff Paul Rieckhoff on bluesky

  Good on you, Anthropic.  —  Refreshing to see someone standing up for what's right and the best interests of the American people.  Because it's clearly not happening from the Pentagon political leadership and propagandists.  —  www.axios.com/2026/02/26/a...

• @mina-hanse Mina Hanse on bluesky

  The US may cancel all contracts with Anthropic if it refuses to give the Pentagon full access to its Claude AI, escalating tensions after the company pushed back on expanded military use.  —  www.ft.com/content/11d2...  [image]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  When there are no laws meaningfully regulating military AI use, the Pentagon's promise to use AI “lawfully” mean almost nothing.  The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived www.platformer.news/anthropic- pe...  [image]

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on bluesky

  This is a major PR coup for Anthropic.  In rejecting the DoD's demands that it allow the surveilling of Americans and autonomous killing, it gets immediate claim to the moral high ground, which other AI co's won't take.  Anthropic is the AI company that *won't* kill and surveil y…

• @alexkirshner.com Alex Kirshner on bluesky

  Anthropic is not giving Hegseth what he wants, at least not now www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

• @knowtheory.net Ted Han on bluesky

  It's worth reading Anthropic's blog post: www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...  I want to underscore that even if you hate Anthropic and uses of Artificial Intelligence, it is important to ensure the lines that they're laying out in this doc are not crossed, regardless of the toolin…

• @jamesrball.com James Ball on bluesky

  I suspect there's also a global legal liability issue here.  But it does also feel like Anthropic is trying to save the DoD from itself - or at least from Secretary Hegseth - here.  The tech is simply not even close to ready to be deployed in this way.  [embedded post]

• @erininthemorning.com Erin Reed on bluesky

  I think it should trouble everyone that Trump is trying to use AI to mass surveil Americans and autonomously target people with killing machines using an AI model.  —  I'm glad Anthropic is refusing.  —  But now we will see if the Pentagon engages in ending the company or a takeo…

• @laurenmeidasa Lauren Ashley Davis on bluesky

  “The contract language we received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons,” Anthropic said in a statement.  —  www.axios.com/2026/02/26/a...

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Fast growing petition of OpenAI and Google employees showing solidarity with Anthropic vs DoW

• r/programare r on reddit

  Uniți împotriva Pentagonului

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• r/technology r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• r/slatestarcodex r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

• r/politics r on reddit

  Anthropic rejects Pentagon's “final offer” in AI safeguards fight

• @vikhyatk Vik on x

  there was a 0% chance anthropic would've agreed to these demands. if they agreed to build warclaude they would've immediately lost their best researchers, who can easily raise $20B dollars tomorrow if they chose to quit.

• @hedgeyecomm @hedgeyecomm on x

  Bye bye U.S. Government... More capacity for the rest of us!

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  So much for a way out. Hegseth STILL designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  Trump just banned Anthropic from the entire federal government. Anthropic is planning to go public this year. The President of the United States just told 80 million people that this AI company would rather lose its military contract than build autonomous weapons or mass

• @headinthebox Erik Meijer on x

  I love Anthropic, but I have said for a long time, including at a meeting in 2023 with people in uniform present, that we need a non-aligned national model. Not only because alignment alone cannot guarantee AI safety, but specifically because you don't want to be dependent on a

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Notable: “A source familiar said that despite Trump's tweet, Anthropic and the Pentagon were still negotiating ahead of the 5:01pm deadline Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set for a deal.” https://www.axios.com/...

• @terronk Lee Edwards on x

  Anthropic is not a “radical left AI company” and pretending so is a disservice to a generational American technology company whose GDP contribution to the nation will be measured in trillions.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  I think this is just about the best outcome we could have hoped for. It was clear that USG and Anthropic had fundamentally incompatible terms and worldviews. I hope the many other great frontier models made by American companies get adopted for classified use soon. TYFYATTM!

• @hamburger Ellis on x

  ah yeah, the part of the constitution that says: 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚜

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  I've done a zillion AI strategy scenarios these last 10 yrs. Don't think I've been in any with the premise of the USA hosting the company with the best AI, but its government point-blank refusing to use its AI in any way. Can anyone point me to one? I think we might have

• @vikhyatk Vik on x

  anyway i think all of this was orchestrated to make an excuse to kick anthropic out and replace it with grok rank and file wanted nothing to do with it. so they had to make up a reason never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by corruption

• @vikhyatk Vik on x

  ai use in military is a complicated topic and also boring. some of you think it's fine, others think claude is a war criminal what i want to talk about is competence in deal making. it's critical to have a good model of your counterparty, and where they have negotiating room

• @alexbores Alex Bores on x

  What's remarkable is how unpopular this is with everyone from people concerned about Terminator-level scenarios to those worried about a fair and free market. We can and should all agree that our government shouldn't use AI to surveil or kill without limits. AI companies

• @petereharrell Peter Harrell on x

  Seems like a decent possible outcome: Anthropic keeps its safety guardrails/values. It can make bank from private customers. The government can decide it doesn't want to buy a private company's product. (Albeit, losing good tech). No weird (maybe illegal) legal dictates.

• @markwarner Mark Warner on x

  Trump & Hegseth's bullying of a company to deploy AI-driven weapons without safeguards should scare the hell out of all of us. This is about more than Anthropic - it's about the responsible deployment of AI everywhere. [video]

• @davidlawler10 Dave Lawler on x

  Hold your horses: Source familiar tells me that despite Trump's tweet, Anthropic and Pentagon are still negotiating and a deal looks possible.

• @tedlieu Ted Lieu on x

  Anthropic objected in part to the Department of Defense using its AI technology to engage in domestic mass surveillance. Do you agree that's a radical left, woke position? That's actually the Constitutional position, one that should be embraced by Americans regardless of party.

• @jhweissmann Jordan Weissmann on x

  So should we assume that any AI company that works with the federal government from now on will allow their model to be used for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons?

• @whitehouse @whitehouse on x

  “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic [imag…

• @sporadica @sporadica on x

  Trump: “hey claude code, —dangerously-skip-permissions and nuke Iran” >"I'm sorry, Mr. President, but I cannot do that." Trump:

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Holy, that escalated quickly. The question now is, who will take over the close collaboration with the DoW from Anthropic: xAI, OpenAI, or Meta. Since Sam has now also shown solidarity with Anthropic and Meta has hardly any useful products, only xAI really remains.

• @tysonbrody Tyson Brody on x

  yup feeling like a taco. Amodei explicitly said 'let's wind down if we can't come to deal,' and that seems to be what Trump is doing. I guess it's all federal work instead of just DoD, but far cry from Hegseth's initial threats. [image]

• @liminal_warmth @liminal_warmth on x

  It's impressive that he's going to go down in history as the man who both destroyed the US economy and lost the AI race for basically no reason

• @seconds_0 @seconds_0 on x

  IMMEDIATELY CEASE over SIX MONTHS

• @jigarshahdc Jigar Shah on x

  Watch Anthropic's revenue double in 12 months off of this.

• @charliebul58993 Charlie Bullock on x

  It's not 100% clear, but this post makes it sound like USG is going to stop using Anthropic's products over the course of a 6-month phase-out, but not declare Anthropic a supply chain risk (or use the DPA to force them to make WarClaude). Far from the worst possible outcome!

• @dowresponse @dowresponse on x

  🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 [image]

• @houseforeign @houseforeign on bluesky

  The Department of Defense is coercing Anthropic simply because it is standing up for American values.  We need to harness American AI innovation, not bully the companies doing it if we are going to win the AI race against China.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  This statement is incoherent on its face and if this was actually effective immediately there would presumably be a bloodbath when the market tries to open.

• @josephpolitano @josephpolitano on x

  never mind they're designating Anthropic a supply chain risk and trying to knife the company for refusing to make killbots and domestic surveillance systems for the US government. absolutely insane, shameful, and corrupt behavior

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  > China: supports AI labs however they can > USA: “they are a national security risk building woke leftists propaganda machines”

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Nvidia, Amazon, Google will have to divest from Anthropic. This is simply corporate murder. That's what you're watching. I could not possibly recommend investing in American AI to any investor; I could not possibly recommend starting an AI company in the United States.

• @deredleritt3r Prinz on x

  And there's the supply chain risk designation for Anthropic. This is *really* bad. “Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.”

• @teortaxestex @teortaxestex on x

  In 2023, I thought that unaligned utilitarians have a good chance to steer state policy. Now they'll be getting crushed under the state's wheels. Trump is right. I got tired of winning. Mr. President, this is too much. [image]

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  This is completely bonkers crazy and it's only going to get crazier.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  The United States federal government is now, by an extremely wide margin, the most aggressive regulator of artificial intelligence in the world. Congratulations everyone.

• @jimsciutto Jim Sciutto on x

  How is declaring @AnthropicAI a supply chain risk consistent with the near-simultaneous threat to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the company to work with the DOD?

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Nevermind. I had been optimistic that the President's tweet signaled an off-ramp, but it doesn't. Shame on the Department of War, shame on Pete Hegseth. A dark day in our country's history.

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Practically speaking, does this mean Amazon, Nvidia, etc. can't do any biz w/ DoD? What about Palantir?

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  No, no, I take it back. Nuclear option. These people are morons.

• @peterwildeford Peter Wildeford on x

  Supply chain risk: Anthropic🇺🇸 Not a supply chain risk: DeepSeek🇨🇳 Good to know the difference

• @briana_reilly Briana Reilly on x

  Hegseth directs DOD to label Anthropic a supply chain risk and reiterates Trump's call for a six-month phase-out of the company's Claude AI model. “America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech,” he says. “This decision is final.”

• @scottlincicome Scott Lincicome on x

  Could be wrong, but the US government openly declaring war on AI might not work out well for humanity. You gotta keep that stuff offline, man!

• @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky

  I really would be so grateful for someone to explain how significant this is.  Can they still raise money?  What counts as a “military contractor”?  What does this do in the short and long term [embedded post]

• Vox Joshua Keating on x

  The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight

• NewsMax.com Jim Thomas on x

  Report: Senators Urge Deal in Pentagon-Anthropic AI Row

• @alexia Alexia Bonatsos on x

  This is unequivocally what Steve Jobs would have done https://x.com/...

• @rebheilweil Reb Heilweil on x

  I have reported for several months that despite getting a OneGov deal, Grok has not yet passed safety reviews for the General Services Administration's government-wide AI resource. The agency's position has been that other federal agencies are using it at their own risk.

• @jdcmedlock James Medlock on x

  Really funny how Elon immediately offered up grok for autonomous kill bots and the pentagon was like “hahahaha are you insane?”

• @basedjensen @basedjensen on x

  No wonder dow is desperate for Claude

• @carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on x

  Was it the sycophantic responses or the unauthorized, sexualized deepfakes. 🤡

• @mrewanmorrison Ewan Morrison on x

  Federal officials raise alarm about the safety of xAI's Grok chatbot - just one month after Hegseth decided to force the military to integrate Grok into the Pentagon networks. This chatbot has a +90% error rate when reporting the news due to hallucinations. Military slop. [image]

• @sporadica @sporadica on x

  Elon getting mad at Anthropic for the DoD stuff is so funny when you find out, they wont even use Grok cause it sucks so bad