Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation
Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic on Tuesday, saying a judge should issue a restraining order that would block …
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Discussion
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@aakashgupta
Aakash Gupta
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Microsoft is exposed, and that's the real reason it's supporting Anthropic against the government. Microsoft integrates Claude into products it sells to the U.S. military. When the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, it gave itself six months to phase out Claude
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
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Microsoft's amicus is quite interesting. The main vibe of the brief is “lets all take a deep breath and pause this SRC designation so the parties can come back to the table to figure this out and avoid any disruption.” Relevant section below [image]
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@allinallnotbad
Samuel Roland
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Now this is a huge deal.
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@neeratanden
Neera Tanden
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Hats off to @Microsoft for doing the right thing here. Every company should join because every company should be worried about the federal government nuking a company on a whim. If they can go after a frontier AI company, the can go after any company.
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@cornoisseur
Michael McLean
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It's good business to resist this corrupt regime
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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I would not have predicted this and I think Microsoft deserves serious praise here. Bravo.
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@hamandcheese
Samuel Hammond
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PC Master Race
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Microsoft coming out on Anthropic's side. Although, ‘independently start a war’ is not exactly what was being discussed. [image]
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@tab_delete
Theo Baker
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Notable, especially given that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly declined to support Anthropic during a meeting with Pete Hegseth — despite Amazon's $61bn stake in the AI startup. Meanwhile Microsoft, a competitor, has now backed Anthropic in court...
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@mirandanazzaro
Miranda Nazzaro
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New: Microsoft files amicus brief in support of Anthropic complaint against Trump admin (h/t @JuliaShapero ) [image]
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@ramez
Ramez Naam
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Proud of my former employer here.
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
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We are literally nerfing ourselves.
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@kelseytuoc
Kelsey Piper
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switching from Sonnet 4.5 to OpenAI 5.4 would be a perfectly reasonable change but switching to 4.1 is just shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly.
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@lechmazur
Lech Mazur
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@ddimolfetta @not_amazn_alexa I got this result recently. GPT 4.1 is not only unintelligent compared to newer models but also very sycophantic. It will confirm their biases. Really bad idea. [image]
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@cremieuxrecueil
@cremieuxrecueil
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yeah so these are not remotely comparable models lmao
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@rsanti97
Santi Ruiz
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Not that it needs to be said, but this whole affair is a disaster in miniature for state capacity
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@kelseytuoc
Kelsey Piper
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Anthropic's lawyer claims in court that the government's attempted reprisals in fact extend to reaching out to private companies and urging them to stop doing business with Anthropic.
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@rparloff
Roger Parloff
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said that a fintech company cut a contract from $10M to $5M and that universities & business-to-business companies have switched to other providers. Said govt is affirmatively reaching out to their customers & urging them to stop working with Anthropic. They fear an executive
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@rparloff
Roger Parloff
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Atty Michael Mongan (WilmerHale) for Anthropic said they feared invocation of the Defense Production Act to “commandeer our technology” and threats of criminal consequences. Said that more than 100 enterprise customers had already expressed doubts about continuing to use them ...
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@rparloff
Roger Parloff
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The status conference in the Anthropic case in ND Calif just ended. Judge Rita Lin set a preliminary injunction hearing for 3/24 at 1:30pm PT. DOJ wanted later, but would not commit to not taking additional onerous actions against Anthropic before then ... 1/6