Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safetyhttps://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a
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I'm waiting to see if Anthropic caves to this naked, coersive, bullying.
@Edelruth it will.
Shareholder primacy is a well-established doctrine in US law, at least since Dodge v. Ford Motor co. (1919):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.So, Hegseth threatens Anthropic with (effectively) corporate murder, this is bad for shareholders, shareholders can sue Anthropic to force it to cave.
I'm sure somebody will go into more detail and correct my simplistic hot take, but in broad strokes I believe it's correct.
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Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8aWould be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping.
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In that context, ironically, Hegseth is not wrong about how sanctimonious the rhetoric of effective altruism is:
https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070But here's the kicker – all the AI bubble barons are in the effective altruism and the wider TESCREAL bundle:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerationism_divides_silicon_valley_w_emile_torresIt's only become a problem for Whiskey Pete now because Anthropic is being difficult.
@rysiek It wouldn't surprise me if ICE "mistook" a few of Anthropic's key engineers for "illegals" and kidnapped them.
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Consider what this means in practice. Again Dean W. Ball:
> Nvidia, Amazon, Google will have to divest from Anthropic if Hegseth gets his way. This is simply attempted corporate murder. I could not possibly recommend investing in American AI to any investor; I could not possibly recommend starting an AI company in the United States.
https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2027515599358730315#m
So…
Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping.
Oh, and I forgot about another level of comedy here: US government throwing a tantrum because *checks notes* it does not have enough technological sovereignty from US tech behemoths.
While at the same time actively pushing against EU's policies related to technological sovereignty:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/This is truly comedy gold.
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Oh, and I forgot about another level of comedy here: US government throwing a tantrum because *checks notes* it does not have enough technological sovereignty from US tech behemoths.
While at the same time actively pushing against EU's policies related to technological sovereignty:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/This is truly comedy gold.
@rysiek whats the bet that all these military laser mishaps are because of ai, and swapping out anthropic models for deepseek ones will let china steer the lasers
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@rysiek whats the bet that all these military laser mishaps are because of ai, and swapping out anthropic models for deepseek ones will let china steer the lasers
@Viss Hanlon's Razor applies. Incompetence and pettiness (on part of DoD) in communicating with the FAA is a sufficient explanation. Or are you talking about some other mishaps?
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Oh, and I forgot about another level of comedy here: US government throwing a tantrum because *checks notes* it does not have enough technological sovereignty from US tech behemoths.
While at the same time actively pushing against EU's policies related to technological sovereignty:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/This is truly comedy gold.
Also, this would be a *great* time to ask other AI hype peddlers – Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Google – if they are comfortable with US DoD using their models for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.
Put them on the spot. Make them squirm trying to answer this question in a way that is not a major PR disaster, and not find themselves on Hegseth's "naughty" list.
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@Viss Hanlon's Razor applies. Incompetence and pettiness (on part of DoD) in communicating with the FAA is a sufficient explanation. Or are you talking about some other mishaps?
@rysiek no, thats the one. yesterdays and then 2ish weeks agos version of the same. its just amusing to think that they tried to get claude to drive the laser around and it just started shooting at everything
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Also, this would be a *great* time to ask other AI hype peddlers – Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Google – if they are comfortable with US DoD using their models for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.
Put them on the spot. Make them squirm trying to answer this question in a way that is not a major PR disaster, and not find themselves on Hegseth's "naughty" list.
They do their little song and dance now to buy some time to set up the necessary subsidiaries to launder their works through and so in a decade they can go "whoopsie didn't know they were doing that"
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Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8aWould be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping.
@rysiek I keep hearing that they've refused to drop their safety pledge, but then TIME reports that they did -- so I am now confused.
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