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• @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…

• @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]

• @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.

• @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

• @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.

• @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!

• @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

• @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.

• @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]

• @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]

• @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]

• @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 …

• @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

• @tszzl Roon on x

  have to say I really enjoy these crashouts. it's pretty kino to read communication that's poorly calculated and wasn't meant for your eyes. so few today are able to speak in these sweeping Shakespearean terms that they fucking hate their competitor and let it blind their calculus

• @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]

• @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.

• @tszzl Roon on x

  feeling sort of gullible today, maybe due to selection effects

• @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

• @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

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

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

• @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/...

• @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/ ...

• @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.

• @tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky

  Holy wow it's a showcase showdown bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post]

• @uticaeric Eric L. Robinson on bluesky

  Oh my god, imagine leading Anthropic and having to negotiate with the “14 Critical Technology Areas is too big, we'll make it 6” guy.  [embedded post]

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO calls OpenAI's Pentagon announcement “mendacious” in internal memo

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

• @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.

• @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

• @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…

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

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

• @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...

• r/technology r on reddit

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

• @corsaren @corsaren on x

  jfc why would you say this...🤦‍♂️

• @littmath Daniel Litt on x

  It's quite possible that this will negatively affect Anthropic's business and make the SCR designation more likely. But of course it shouldn't. Hot take: shutting up because of fear of government reprisal is part of democratic backsliding.

• @abebrown716 Abe Brown on x

  Fightin' words from Dario, who is clearly quite comfortable with the distinction he's drawn between himself and Sam. Also, really seems to really dim the odds of any possible Anthropic-Defense Dept. reconciliation. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• @lauramandaro Laura Mandaro on x

  Tensions running high at Anthropic last Friday. Scoop by @steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• @_chair @_chair on x

  people are really accustomed to everyone playing the kiss Trump's ass game huh

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Holy frick, Dario Amodei goes straight against Trump: “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic …

• @vikhyatk Vik on x

  dario seems intent on escalating this conflict is he playing 3d chess, or is he letting his emotions get the better of him? [image]

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  The technical parts about contract details are probably right but Dario was obviously on megatilt here same as everyone else on Friday and the inflammatory stuff here esp about WH is deeply f***ing stupid to say, WH was trying to de-escalate and Dario needs to eat some crow ASAP.

• @wesroth Wes Roth on x

  Dario spills the beans on what really happened with DoW

• @shinboson @shinboson on x

  he's obviously right and to pretend he's not is wild cope. I'm sure some of you are capable of it though. in fact, I'd quite enjoy seeing it out of you. could you do that for me? perform for me? I want to see it.

• @tenobrus @tenobrus on x

  this is such a massive tactical blunder it's significantly increasing my trust in dario lmao. maybe he really isn't an Optimizer after all

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  hmmmmmm [image]

• @tysonbrody Tyson Brody on x

  whew! didn't expect Dario to continue up the escalation ladder.

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI's messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says |  TechCrunch

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI's messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

• r/politics r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI's messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says |  TechCrunch

• @tszzl Roon on x

  I'm going to take the under on this: various people have in the past called Trump a pedo, dictator, Hitler, etc and then things were just fine after some tit for tat, even became vice president or Secretary of State, or continue to lead his superpac

• @slow_developer Haider on x

  well that didn't take long anthropic has resumed talks with the pentagon lmao... for people who switched from chatgpt because they thought it was the more ethical choice remember, corporations don't give a damn about you. so just use whichever AI tools work best for you

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on bluesky

  To me, Emil Michael will always be the Uber exec who suggested digging dirt on journalists looking into the company.  [embedded post]

• @jenn_elias Jennifer E. on x

  Anthropic's CEO reportedly said Friday “We haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has),” referring to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He added it “told the truth” rather than “colluding” with the government to produce 'safety theater.'" https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• r/Anthropic r on reddit

  Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

• @samfr Sam Freedman on bluesky

  “Safety theater” is exactly what I'm worried about if we're completely dependent on these companies.  Sellable to ministers but doesn't mitigate the risks.  —  (Full memo is here but paywalled - www.theinformation.com/articles/ rea...)