Discussion

• @ramez Ramez Naam on x

  Coming back to this. No AI company can stop DOD from misusing AI, because it's simply too easy to pick up or buy a different model. But by making the issue public, Dario has called the attention of voters, the press, and Congress to the potential misuse of AI. That's the win.

• @ramez Ramez Naam on x

  The most important thing Dario did is get this issue in the news. At the end of the day, xAI will build a good enough model. Or Palantir can build a frontier model for a few hundred million. There are no technical moats here. The important thing is that the public and Congress

• @secwar @secwar on x

  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company

• r/WeTheFifth r on reddit

  “No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump …

• @ericlevitz Eric Levitz on x

  It's really bizarre to see a bunch of ostensibly pro-market, right-leaning tech guys argue, “A private company asserting the right to decide what contracts it enters into is antithetical to democratic government” [image]

• @justjoshinyou13 Josh You on x

  @stratechery This conflates multiple senses of control/power. By vetoing some government uses of Claude, Anthropic is not arrogating to itself the ability or right to use Claude for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

• @kellylsims Kelly Sims on x

  “What concerns me about Amodei and Anthropic in particular is the consistent pattern of being singularly focused on being the one winner with all of the power, with limited consideration of how everyone else may react to that situation.” This is a thoughtful piece on all this.

• @jeremiahdjohns Jeremiah Johnson on x

  @stratechery This is one of the worst things I've read from you, and seems like obvious nonsense. “AI is as dangerous as nuclear weapons, which is why if a company expresses concerns about using AI for autonomous weapons, we will destroy them permanently”. What the hell?

• @rabois Keith Rabois on x

  Yes.

• @uswremichael @uswremichael on x

  Great article about the democratic process determining our nation's fate rather that a single tech founder overriding our leaders.

• @quastora Trey Causey on x

  @stratechery I believe this post fundamentally misunderstands the options that are / were actually available to the government and to Anthropic in a way that is undemocratic. I highly recommend reading @deanwball's piece on this today for a more accurate picture. https://www.hype…

• @irl_danb Dan on x

  Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

• @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky

  Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]

• @rusty.todayintabs.com Rusty Foster on bluesky

  Earlier in the piece, he says that international law is “fake.”  It doesn't get much more cynical and amoral than this.  I haven't checked in on Ben in a while but this is straightforward Nazi thinking.  “Might makes right and only violent power is real.”  [embedded post]

• @lopatto Elizabeth Lopatto on bluesky

  the contortions here are very funny if you're familiar with (a) ben's stance on other tech cos and (b) his objections to antitrust action.  do we think he's aware that he's describing and endorsing fascism?  stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Ben Thompson with the best take on DOD v. Anthropic, which is basically: if you don't want the government to treat your technology like nuclear weapons, stop comparing your technology to nuclear weapons. Hype Tax. [image]

• @benthompson Ben Thompson on x

  @EricLevitz I wasn't making a normative argument. Of course I think this is bad. I was pointing out what will inevitably happen with AI in reality

• @benspringwater Ben Springwater on x

  I love @benthompson. He is my favorite tech commentator. I listen to @stratechery every day. But his justification for the US Govt seeking to destroy Anthropic is incredibly glib and misguided. AI :: nuclear weapons is sometimes a useful analogy but it's obviously an imperfect [i…

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  @BearForce_Won as someone who has idolized ben since the days of “no, the iPhone is going to be resilient to commodification” (his beginning)—and obviously is operating in ben's shadow as a tech newsletter writer—I was disappointed with his piece today.