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• @wstrobel Warren Strobel on x

  Great piece by @TaraCopp @lizzadwoskin @iduncan https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @taracopp Tara Copp on x

  GIFT LINK: “In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it's ever used in warfare, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs

• @duhe Ehud on bluesky

  So here's my impression: most of the targeting work and so on is not done by Claude but rather by in house computer vision systems and so on that feed their results to the chatbot for “reasoning” and as a user interface.  The llms probably cannot drive the lower level tools 1/2 […

• @convergingriskslab Caroline Baxter on bluesky

  “The key paradigm shift is that AI enables the U.S. military to develop targeting packages at machine speed rather than human speed.”  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...

• @hypervisible.blacksky.app @hypervisible.blacksky.app on bluesky

  “...those who've chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider their choice of mascot...”

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic's AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud

• @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Jeff Jarvis on mastodon

  Cry me a river, Sam:  —  “To try so hard to do the right thing and get so absolutely like, personally crushed for it...is really painful.”  He calls it “a complex but the right decision with extremely difficult brand consequences.”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work …

• @seanhodgdon.com Sean Hodgdon on bluesky

  Trust the NSA?  In this economy? [embedded post]

• @masnick.com Mike Masnick on bluesky

  And another one from me: I explain why OpenAI claiming it had the same red lines as Anthropic is... not accurate.  And how it's letting the NSA define terms that the NSA likes to define differently than the common understanding in the English language.  [embedded post]

• @cassandroid.substack.com @cassandroid.substack.com on bluesky

  #altmanAI is FULL OF SHIT.  —  the original line was “no US mass surveillance” + “no fully autonomous weapons”, but also “within legal boundaries”.  —  this is important and does not get mentioned enough.  the regime is breaking the law *all the time*.  and altmanAI chose to “tru…

• @BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu Christine Hall on mastodon

  The words in OpenAI's contract likely don't mean what most people think they mean.  This isn't speculation about future abuse.  It's the documented operating procedure of the NSA for decades—a practice exposed repeatedly by whistleblowers, litigated in courts, and eventually conf…

• @can @can on x

  constant posting by @sama et al on the DoD deal feels a lot like “we are winging it and figuring it out as we go” and less like a principled stance about anything. maybe that's par for th course, will probz work out, but if there's a guiding north star, I don't see it

• @valhalla_dev @valhalla_dev on x

  How exactly does Sam Altman dig deeper into the PR nightmare every time he hits the timeline? Between this and the joke of an “AMA” the other night, he'd probably best be served either keeping quiet for a couple months or going full Palmer Luckey

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  “Lisan you are so biased, always trash talking OpenAI and Sam. you're just a hater.” no, I'm actually seeing Sam and OpenAI for who they are. I have been right about them AGAIN just remind yourself of this in 6 months, when they are in the news again for some shady shit

• @sean_from_earth Sean on x

  I get the logic here but telling your highly competent staff “yes, we're building the machine god and we're going to let pete fucking hegseth decide how to use it” is about the worst messaging possible.

• @timzero4 Tim Edwards on bluesky

  www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/s...  CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  It's almost comical how transparent OpenAI is being about the play being to let the government use ChatGPT to spy on Americans and kill people then claim the government broke its promise when it happens.  [image]

• r/technology r on reddit

  Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's ‘operational decisions’ are up to the government

• r/politics r on reddit

  Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's ‘operational decisions’ are up to the government

• @willoremus.com Will Oremus on bluesky

  Interesting!  Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...

• @baileymcc Bailey McCann on bluesky

  From the team that brought you “we are too ethical for killbots” what of schools and children then?  Who can I say I guess

• @jaylyall @jaylyall on bluesky

  US used Anthropic's AI tool Claude, along with Maven Smart, another AI system built by Palantir, to choose 100s of targets in the opening day of airstrikes against Iran  —  Claude + Maven Smart were used to suggest “hundreds of targets, issue precise location coordinates, and pri…

• Vox Vox on x

  How the US might be using AI in Iran

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.

• r/Anthropic r on reddit

  Anthropic resuming talks with DoW.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  I really cannot see how Anthropic's position benefits at this stage from communications like this. Seems it just pushes the Trump Admin to escalate further while also alienating potential allies in the industry. They already had a strong hand. Sometimes silence is best.

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  dario has a really rich history of sending wild slack messages to all his staff (from last july https://archive.ph/EUVi5) [image]

• @sspencer_smb Steven Spencer on x

  The AI CEO Wars! Amodei can't stand Altman. Altman can't stand Amodei. Elon can't stand either of them. No one has anything bad to say about Hassabis!

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Dario also encourages Anthropic employees to talk with their OpenAI friends and push back on Sam Altman's narrative - says he's worried this “gaslighting” working on OpenAi staff

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  I wonder how investors — who are scrambling to contain the damage from Anthropic's fallout with the Pentagon — view this memo, coming out at this time. https://x.com/...

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  I'm not super surprised — I've said before that Anthropic has too much of their identity wrapped up in “OAI bad” — but this memo doesn't look great IMO

• @benjaminmmurphy Ben Murphy on x

  It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.

• @tukifromkl Tuki on x

  Dario Amodei just ended Sam Altman's entire career in a memo. > calls OpenAI's Pentagon deal “safety theater” > says Sam gave “dictator-style praise to Trump” > names Greg Brockman's $25M Trump super PAC donation > reveals Palantir's actual pitch: “make what is happening [image]

• @jdcmedlock James Medlock on x

  I really appreciate the Anthropic lobbies for AI regulation. In some ways it strikes me as a more meaningful signal than the DoW contract negotiations. And it doesn't strike me as a regulatory capture move.

• @rcbregman Rutger Bregman on x

  My god, FINALLY. After all the cowardly law firms, universities, media networks, tech oligarchs bending the knee, after all their disgusting sucking up to daddy Trump, finally a CEO with a real backbone. Finally a CEO who shows real moral leadership. Dario Amodei, thank you.

• @tenreirodaniel Daniel Tenreiro on x

  I think Anthropic is the best of the labs & they came out of the pentagon affair looking reasonable but Dario sounds absolutely unhinged here

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  This is so silly. Like why would you say this!! Something I think remains underrated is that Sam is the only silicon valley CEO who is like a normal good CEO, like Jamie Dimon, unlike most tech CEOs who are pretty bad with this part of the job, and this also makes ev'one see him

• @austinahlman Austin Ahlman on x

  At a certain point you have to wonder to what extent these comments/leaks are theater in the quest to be the liberal branded AI company. Related: They just dropped $1.6 million in partnership with AIPAC donors to elect a corporate Democrat.

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  see if i was dario i would not put this in writing. but kudos for saying it how it is!

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  He's right but Anthropic was engaged in a bit of safety theater too

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Oh wow....Dario Amodei memo, per @theinformation: “We haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has), we have supported AI regulation which is against their agenda, we've told the truth about a number of AI policy issues (like job displacement), and we've actually […

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  SCOOP: Dario Amodei sent an explosive memo to Anthropic employees on Friday, calling OpenAI's deal “safety theater” and criticizing the Pentagon, Palantir, OpenAI and the Trump administration writ large. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... with @steph_palazzolo and @srimuppidi [i…

• @steph_palazzolo Stephanie Palazzolo on x

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees on Friday that the OpenAI-Pentagon deal was “safety theater” and the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” He expressed skepticism at the safeguards OpenAI touted. [image]

• @amir Amir Efrati on x

  Anthropic CEO was fired up Friday after OpenAI jumped in to work with Pentagon, criticizing the OpenAI deal and explaining why the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic, according to a newly earthed 1,600-word memo to staff. [image]

• @nickwingfield Nick Wingfield on x

  Whoa, I don't think this is going to turn the temperature down on the Anthropic-Trump Admin relationship. Great scoop from @steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo & @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• @srimuppidi Sri Muppidi on x

  big scoop: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls out OpenAI for “safety theatre” in the Pentagon deal. He adds that the Trump administration doesn't like Anthropic because the company doesn't give “dictator-style praise to Trump.” new/ @steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  Defense tech companies are dropping Claude after Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist

• r/BuyFromEU r on reddit

  OpenAI looking at contract with NATO, source says

• r/singularity r on reddit

  OpenAI looking at contract with NATO, source says

• @apoorv03 Apoorv Agrawal on x

  Dario at MS TMT Conference today: On defense / DOW:"We really believe in defending America." Anthropic has been working with the national security community for 2 years. “We are the most lean forward.” On AI acceleration:"We do not see hitting a wall. This year will have a

• @fergdawg Paul Ferguson on bluesky

  I initially thought this was a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post.  [embedded post]