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Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, its position is intolerable and misaligned with reality. https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/ [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @benthompson, 2026-03-02 11:00 UTC
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– Anthropic acquires Vercept
– xAI's MacroHard heavily focuses on Computer use 2025 was the year of agents in CLI
2026 is shaping up to be the year of computer use agents.
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I’m honestly tired of watching OpenAI get cast as the default villain in every AI debate. They try something bold, it’s dangerous. They move fast, it’s irresponsible. They partner, it’s corruption. They compete, it’s opportunism. Meanwhile, plenty of other companies move quietly, wait for validation, copy what works, avoid the hardest calls — and somehow escape the same scrutiny. Let’s be honest. OpenAI ships at scale. They deploy first. They test boundaries in public. That means they make visible mistakes. Visible tradeoffs. Visible bets. But that’s also what pushing a frontier looks like. If you’re the company actually attempting moonshots, integrating with institutions, scaling globally, and defining new categories, you’re going to absorb more risk and more criticism than everyone standing safely behind you. Do we really believe other AI companies aren’t navigating the same ethical gray zones? The same regulatory ambiguity? The same pressure between innovation and governance? Or is it just easier to project all systemic anxiety onto the biggest target? The standard keeps rising for OpenAI. Higher than for startups. Higher than for open source projects. Higher than for incumbents moving quietly in the background. Criticism is necessary. Accountability matters. But pretending only one company operates in tension with power, policy, and profit feels intellectually dishonest. Frontier innovation is messy. Governance is incomplete. The incentives are complex. If we want responsible AI, we should demand better systems, not just better villains. Because the reality is this: The companies actually trying to reshape infrastructure will always look riskier than the ones waiting to copy the outcome. And asking them to innovate without taking risk is asking them to do nothing at all.
→ View original post on X — @arrakis_ai, 2026-03-01 03:32 UTC
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new jeff dean fact just dropped https://t.co/r5BB8J8m9B pic.twitter.com/kBey2bifLw
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 28 février 2026
new jeff dean fact just dropped
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We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we’ve made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
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Yesterday we reached an agreement with the Department of War for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, which we requested they make available to all AI companies. We think our deployment has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI
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Our agreement with the Department of War upholds our redlines: – No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance. – No use of OpenAI technology to direct autonomous weapons systems. – No use of OpenAI technology for high-stakes automated decisions (e.g. systems such
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Oui c’est incompréhensible Luc Julia est complètement dépassé Il raconte n’importe quoi sur l’IA Et les journalistes continuent à l’inviter C’est un mystère ! https://
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The CEO of the most advanced AI company in America just went on national television (Save this)
— StockMarket.News (@_Investinq) 28 février 2026
Hours after his company was blacklisted by the US government.
Here's what he said.
Dario Amodei built the only AI deployed inside the Pentagon's classified networks.
His company… https://t.co/b7ZS2wj9re pic.twitter.com/Tj4a3LiJD0
The CEO of the most advanced AI company in America just went on national television (Save this) Hours after his company was blacklisted by the US government. Here's what he said. Dario Amodei built the only AI deployed inside the Pentagon's classified networks. His company helped run military operations, intelligence, cyber defense. Then the government told him to drop all safety limits. He said no to two things. Just two. "One is domestic mass surveillance." He explained: the government can already buy your location data, your browsing history, your political affiliations from private companies. AI makes it possible to analyze all of it. On every American, all at once. "That actually isn't illegal. It was just never useful before the era of AI." "Case number two is fully autonomous weapons." Not the drones used in Ukraine and the remote-controlled systems. Weapons that select targets and fire without a single human pressing a button. "The AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough." "We don't want to sell something that could get our own people killed or that could get innocent people killed." He approved 98% of what the Pentagon wanted. "No one on the ground has actually run into the limits of any of these exceptions." The government wasn't fighting over something it needed. It was fighting over the right to have no limits at all. They gave him three days. He said no. So the President called his company "radical left woke." Then ordered every federal agency to stop using their technology. Then the Pentagon labeled them a national security risk. A designation that has only ever been used against foreign enemies. When asked if he'd received any formal legal action, he said this: "All we've seen are tweets from the president and tweets from Secretary Hegseth." No letter, filing or a legal document. "When we receive some kind of formal action, we will look at it, we will understand it, and we will challenge it in court." He said the Defense Secretary lied about the law. Hegseth tweeted that any company with military contracts can't do business with Anthropic "at all." Amodei: "That is not what the law said." "The nature of the tweet was designed to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt." Asked if this was an abuse of power, he paused. Then said: "This designation has never happened before with an American company." "It was made very clear that this was retaliatory and punitive." "I don't know what else to call it." Asked if Anthropic could survive, he didn't hesitate. "Not only survive it. We're gonna be fine." Then the final question. "If you had a moment with the President right now tonight, what would you say to him?" "We are patriotic Americans." "Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country." "The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values." "Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world." "And we are patriots." A CEO just went on national television and told the President of the United States: You can blacklist us. You can call us names. You can threaten our business through tweets. But we will not build machines that spy on Americans or kill without human hands. StockMarket.News (@_Investinq) The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies. For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens. Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade. Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything. This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum. Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want. The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no. Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines. No mass surveillance of Americans. No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger. The Pentagon called this “woke AI.” Anthropic called it a conscience. The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies. President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately. But here’s where the story turns. That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message. “Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.” The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding. No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons. Human control over the use of force. The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day. Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier. “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.” Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get. Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks. Replacing it will take months. OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military. The stakes are staggering. Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO. Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties. Not because the technology failed. Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.” But here’s the real question no one’s asking: If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on? Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter? Sam Altman called for de-escalation. He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company. Including Anthropic. The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.” Bookmark and share this. — https://nitter.net/_Investinq/status/2027582254445195276#m