Did the “Department of War” just make the same deal with OpenAI that they denounced Anthropic for wanting a few hours earlier? Am I missing something? Or is this as crazy and capricious as it sounds?
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Anthropic condemned for refusing military access to AI models
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@AnthropicAI did what you don’t do: have principles. What they got wrong was having the wrong principles. Agree with you that autonomous weapons are essential for national defense. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) 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 position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission – a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final. — https://nitter.net/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070#m
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AI Mass Surveillance: A Welcome to Our New Overlords
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I for one welcome our new AI mass surveillance overlords.
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Anthropic’s stance: navigating complexity in AI policy debates
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Aquí mi opinión se alinea a favor de la postura de Anthropic. Pero soy consciente de que aquí sólo vemos la superficie de un juego de trileros del que sabemos poco y donde mi opinión poco aporta.
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Ilya Sutskever and Other Voices Speak Out Publicly
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And other important voices have also spoken publicly about it, such as Ilya Sutskever
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AI as critical infrastructure: corporate leverage over sovereign nations.
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People don’t get it. AI is becoming critical infrastructure. It will power defense, finance, intelligence, everything. If a private company can decide how the U.S. government is allowed to use it, that’s not ethics. That’s corporate leverage over a sovereign nation.
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Anthropic’s AI Safety Stance Receives Support from Sam Altman
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Sobre la postura de Anthropic incluso Sam Altman, con sus diferencias, ha mostrado su apoyohttps://t.co/0i2SV9ADPz
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 27 février 2026Sobre la postura de Anthropic incluso Sam Altman, con sus diferencias, ha mostrado su apoyo
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METR’s Exponential AI Capability Evals and Emerging Threat Models
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METR’s @joel_bkr on exponential Time Horizon Evals, Threat Models, and the Limits of AI Productivity https://
latent.space/p/metr Everyone is going beserk over the @METR_Evals plots going exponential. Yet we -do- think Something Big Is Happening and it kicked off with Opus 4.5 in -
Pentagon’s AI Autonomous Weapons Raise Ethical Concerns Over Human Oversight
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Translation: The pentagon wants mass surveillance of US citizens (that means you!) and is so caught in the hype they think it is a-ok to put hallucination machines in autonomous weapons without human oversight. Truly scary times.
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AGI Timeline and Implications of Fast Takeoff Scenarios
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AGI timeline and a fast takeoffpic.twitter.com/SNBTWgAG5w
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 27 février 2026AGI timeline and a fast takeoff