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Trump gave the administration a way to declare victory and move on with his “We don't like Anthropic, they're fired.” Hegseth, who is much dumber, instead commits to a full-throated attempt to destroy the company by announcing that no vendor who works with the US military may do any business with them. This was always the worst-case scenario here: that Hegseth was idiotic enough to singlehandedly sack US hegemony because he thinks it makes him look tough. Trump generally has better instincts than this, but Hegseth is remarkably incompetent.

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.

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Trump gave the administration a way to declare victory and move on with his “We don't like Anthropic, they're fired.” Hegseth, who is much dumber, instead commits to a full-throated attempt to destroy the company by announcing that no vendor who works with the US military may do any business with them. This was always the worst-case scenario here: that Hegseth was idiotic enough to singlehandedly sack US hegemony because he thinks it makes him look tough. Trump generally has better instincts than this, but Hegseth is remarkably incompetent.

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 ...

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Anthropic didn't make a mistake, by the way. A DOD that would do this in response to a company declining to renegotiate its contract terms is one that will not keep any promises about ‘lawful purposes’.

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.

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Anthropic didn't make a mistake, by the way. A DOD that would do this in response to a company declining to renegotiate its contract terms is one that will not keep any promises about ‘lawful purposes’.

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 ...

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If Hegseth is smart, he'll fire the morons who dragged him into this fight, try to get other labs cleared for classified engagement, and fire Anthropic in a year if this is a real problem then. However, I haven't heard any indications that my condition in that sentence holds.

2026-02-27 View on X

Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

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If Hegseth is smart, he'll fire the morons who dragged him into this fight, try to get other labs cleared for classified engagement, and fire Anthropic in a year if this is a real problem then. However, I haven't heard any indications that my condition in that sentence holds.

2026-02-27 View on X

Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

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after Congress repeatedly rejected this approach to pre-empting state AI regulation - and we're not talking about replacing it with federal AI regulation, just banning states from making their own rules - the administration gave up and did this executive order.

2025-12-13 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

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And don't let anyone tell you this is necessary to fight China, because the President just accepted a bribe to sell our chips to China. He doesn't give a fuck about American competitiveness. None of these people do. They care about personally getting rich.

2025-12-13 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

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after Congress repeatedly rejected this approach to pre-empting state AI regulation - and we're not talking about replacing it with federal AI regulation, just banning states from making their own rules - the administration gave up and did this executive order.

2025-12-13 View on X

Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

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Preempting with *nothing* is a much much worse approach than preempting with a regulatory framework you actually stand behind. and doing it by executive order exceeds the executive's powers.

2025-12-13 View on X

Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

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And don't let anyone tell you this is necessary to fight China, because the President just accepted a bribe to sell our chips to China. He doesn't give a fuck about American competitiveness. None of these people do. They care about personally getting rich.

2025-12-13 View on X

Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

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Preempting with *nothing* is a much much worse approach than preempting with a regulatory framework you actually stand behind. and doing it by executive order exceeds the executive's powers.

2025-12-13 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

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Preempting with *nothing* is a much much worse approach than preempting with a regulatory framework you actually stand behind. and doing it by executive order exceeds the executive's powers.

2025-12-12 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

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after Congress repeatedly rejected this approach to pre-empting state AI regulation - and we're not talking about replacing it with federal AI regulation, just banning states from making their own rules - the administration gave up and did this executive order.

2025-12-12 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

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And don't let anyone tell you this is necessary to fight China, because the President just accepted a bribe to sell our chips to China. He doesn't give a fuck about American competitiveness. None of these people do. They care about personally getting rich.

2025-12-12 View on X

Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

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this is absolutely the most absurd hiring/talent market I've ever seen

2025-08-27 View on X

Wired

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta

CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

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@recurseparadox Congress can repeal the CHIPS act if they want to. (I think they shouldn't, but they could). But ‘Congress authorized grants so now we can nationalize you for free’ is nuts.

2025-08-24 View on X

New York Times

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity

and every American should be [video] Kelsey Piper / @kelseytuoc : @recurseparadox Congress can repeal the CHIPS act if they want to. (I think they shouldn't, but they could). But ‘...

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I am against the government demanding ("negotiating") 10% shares in private companies in exchange for nothing and am pretty sure nothing down this road ends well at all

2025-08-24 View on X

New York Times

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity

and every American should be [video] Kelsey Piper / @kelseytuoc : @recurseparadox Congress can repeal the CHIPS act if they want to. (I think they shouldn't, but they could). But ‘...

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One nice thing about a change like the 2018 to 2025 one is that you find out who had principles all along and who was just mouthing them when convenient. Not all that many organizations came out looking good, but Substack does.

2025-03-30 View on X

@hamishmckenzie

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to support “writers residing lawfully” in the US targeted by the government for their writing

https://x.com/... X: Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani : I'm glad Hamish is doing this at a time when many people who claimed to support free speech are nowhere to be found. Kelsey Piper /...

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Elon's offer to purchase the OpenAI nonprofit for $97.4billion isn't going to happen, but it may seriously complicate OpenAI's efforts to claim the nonprofit is fairly valued at $40billion. If you won't sell it for $97.4billion, that means you think it's worth more than that.

2025-02-11 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit

Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …

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