2026-03-03
I've been defending DoD's position on their contract with Anthropic, but the correct remedy there is cancelling the contract, not trying to obliterate the company with a supply-chain risk designation.
Bloomberg
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
I've been defending DoD's position on their contract with Anthropic, but the correct remedy there is cancelling the contract, not trying to obliterate the company with a supply-chain risk designation.
Stratechery
Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities
Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...
2025-12-18
China got around this the obvious way: by recruiting Chinese engineers who worked for ASML. Do people understand real life isn't a Paradox game and a pop crossing borders doesn't make them “yours”?
Reuters
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …