Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted
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Discussion
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
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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.
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@josephpolitano
@josephpolitano
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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
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@scaling01
@scaling01
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> China: supports AI labs however they can > USA: “they are a national security risk building woke leftists propaganda machines”
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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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.
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@deredleritt3r
Prinz
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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.”
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@teortaxestex
@teortaxestex
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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]
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
on x
This is completely bonkers crazy and it's only going to get crazier.
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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The United States federal government is now, by an extremely wide margin, the most aggressive regulator of artificial intelligence in the world. Congratulations everyone.
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@jimsciutto
Jim Sciutto
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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?
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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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.
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@danprimack
Dan Primack
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Practically speaking, does this mean Amazon, Nvidia, etc. can't do any biz w/ DoD? What about Palantir?
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@s_oheigeartaigh
@s_oheigeartaigh
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No, no, I take it back. Nuclear option. These people are morons.
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@peterwildeford
Peter Wildeford
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Supply chain risk: Anthropic🇺🇸 Not a supply chain risk: DeepSeek🇨🇳 Good to know the difference
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@briana_reilly
Briana Reilly
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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.”
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@scottlincicome
Scott Lincicome
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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!
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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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]