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Ross Douthat

@douthatnyt
15 posts
2026-03-02
@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-02 View on X
@sama

[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an “extremely scary precedent”, OpenAI rushed its deal to “de-escalate things”, and more

including policy and legal matters, but also many technical layers.Sam Altman /@sama:@viralmuskmelon This is a complicated one we struggled with a lot, and until recently it was ea...

@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

2026-03-01
@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools

Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …

@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-01 View on X
@sama

[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an “extremely scary precedent”, OpenAI rushed its deal to “de-escalate things”, and more

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

@sama Does the precedent that the DoW is setting by effectively blacklisting Anthropic make you concerned about what any future dispute with the Pentagon would mean for your own company's independence and viability?
2026-03-01 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”

We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.

2026-02-28
There is absolutely a case that the US government needs to exert more political control over A.I. as a technology given what its own architects say about where it's going and how world-altering it might become. But the best case for that kind of political exertion is
2026-02-28 View on X
@secwar

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

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our ...

There is absolutely a case that the US government needs to exert more political control over A.I. as a technology given what its own architects say about where it's going and how world-altering it might become. But the best case for that kind of political exertion is
2026-02-28 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.

2025-10-30
This week's Interesting Times is a conversation with Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir and a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserves: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-10-30 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on surveillance, AI, the future of war, data, privacy, the US military, ImmigrationOS, the DHS, ICE, the UK's IDs, and more

The tech company's C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.  —  Few companies in Silicon Valley inspire as much paranoia as Palantir. X: @douthatnyt and @morgangress Blu...

2025-06-06
Somewhere on the back roads of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is having a pretty good day.
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

2025-01-18
For Matter of Opinion this week I interviewed @pmarca: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-01-18 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his political evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Donald Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o... Jan-Werner Mueller / @jwmueller-pu : “The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death.  And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they'r...

2024-02-06
Prediction: exposure to more of the ancient world will dovetail with increasing weirdness in our own. https://twitter.com/...
2024-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history

Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go.  Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...

2023-03-15
“It didn't pass AP English, the humanities are saved!” Nobody under 50 ever reads a book again because they're constantly refreshing AI-generated content for the sweet dopamine hit. “Ah, well, nevertheless.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

2022-12-02
Reading @DKThomp on AI is particularly interesting if you pair the piece with ... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carn...

2021-03-13
Of course, Amazon also seems bound and determined to goad the GOP into anti-monopoly populism: https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness