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Sarah Myers West

@sarahbmyers
11 posts
2026-02-28
A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
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.

A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
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 ...

A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
2026-02-28 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks

“In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values”  —  Perhaps you should heed that warning?  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2......

2026-02-27
A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
2026-02-27 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks

Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
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 …

A bit buried but worth noting - a reason DoD is more dependent on Anthropic's models is because it is seamlessly tied to AWS, which provides the JWCC (successor contract to Maven). Cloud dependency is a part of this picture.
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.

2021-08-13
Outside of the baseline invasiveness of worker surveillance here, I've seen patents for tracking mouse movements to ID the users' mental and physical health - so this could have profound consequences for disabled workers https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-13 View on X
VICE

Internal docs: Amazon plans to monitor keyboard strokes and mouse movements of customer service staff to stop rogue workers or hackers accessing customer data

2021-06-12
This is potentially really significant, because the case underlines whether workers have a right to protest the social impact of their work. One to follow. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-12 View on X
Vox

NLRB expands its complaint against Google to add three more fired workers who say the company retaliated against them for protesting against its work with CBP

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :

2021-04-27
Remember that a few weeks ago, the General Counsel of the NLRB said he intends to extend labor protections to workers engaged in political advocacy: https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-27 View on X
Jason Fried

Basecamp's CEO announces a ban on “societal and political discussions” at work, saying the company does not need to solve or even chime in on social problems

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product.  It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves.

2020-04-29
Add this to a growing list of surveillance tech companies with white supremacist/reactionary right origins. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-29 View on X
Salt Lake Tribune

Utah AG suspends Banjo's state contract after report about its founder's KKK past, suspends use of the surveillance tech while auditing it on data privacy, bias

you should also read his book on police/tech surveillance. https://twitter.com/... Schmaltzing Matilda / @shammaboyarin : Some of those who burn crosses, create massive surveillanc...

2020-04-28
Add this to a growing list of surveillance tech companies with white supremacist/reactionary right origins. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-28 View on X
OneZero

The CEO of Banjo, a SoftBank-backed surveillance firm that's raised nearly $223M, was once a neo-Nazi and was involved in the drive-by shooting of a synagogue

magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography.