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US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.”” https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2027555481699446918

AI Defense Contractors: The Economics Behind the Pentagon Pivot – philippdubach.com https://philippdubach.com/posts/when-ai-labs-become-defense-contractors/

Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company’s concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.”” https://x.com/stratechery/status/2028425096054931921

Anthropic Labeled Supply-Chain Risk, Pentagon Says – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/pentagon-says-it-s-told-anthropic-the-firm-is-supply-chain-risk

Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/anthropic-made-pitch-in-drone-swarm-contest-during-pentagon-feud

Anthropic-Palantir Partnership at Risk After Pentagon Decision — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-palantir-partnership-risk-pentagon-ruling

NEW: After the Pentagon threatened to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” Anthropic’s relationship with government contractor Palantir may be at risk. Palantir could stop using Anthropic for federal work, which makes up ~42% of Palantir’s $4.5B in revenue last year.”” https://x.com/srimuppidi/status/2028943303581024412

NVIDIA CFO on the earnings call: “”Physical AI is here, having already contributed north of $6B in NVIDIA Corporation revenue in fiscal year 2026.”” Jensen: “”Now, the thing that is the wave that we are seeing now is the agentic AI inflection, and the next inflection beyond”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2026815968807366703

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://x.com/deanwball/status/2027515599358730315

One legal point: The DoW “”supply chain risk”” designation applies to DoW *contracts,* not generally. DoW can tell suppliers “”don’t use Anthropic when performing DoW contracts.”” But DoW can’t, legally, tell its contractors “”don’t use Anthropic even in your private contracts.”””” https://x.com/petereharrell/status/2027517998555160645

Scoop: Anthropic’s business partnership with Palantir could be the first casualty of its Pentagon spat”” https://x.com/aaronpholmes/status/2028942999548297464

Sorry if this is woke or whatever but it is FUCKING INSANE that the DoD is explicitly, publicly trying to create an AI powered mass surveillance program of American citizens, attempting to destroy a company for refusing to comply with that directive, and *bragging about doing so*”” https://x.com/quantian1/status/2027537341410160917

Thank you for your attention to this matter. cc: @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei”” https://x.com/petehegseth/status/2027487514395832410?s=12

The amendment for the DoW-OAI deal may help, but I think it still fails to address key problems. The core surveillance prohibition is limited to “”intentional””/””deliberate”” surveillance. If the DoW says the use is incidental, it’s seemingly permitted, regardless of scale. 🧵”” https://x.com/justanotherlaw/status/2028673906870223286

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type”” https://x.com/deanwball/status/2027521251263000765

threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”” @AnthropicAI drawing a moral line against enabling mass domestic surveillance & fully autonomous weapons, and holding it under pressure. Almost unheard of in BigTech. I stand in support.”” https://x.com/mmitchell_ai/status/2027478619430523273

Until a full account of the Anthropic-DoW negotiations eventually comes out in testimony under oath, it’s hard to know for sure how to interpret it. But the supply chain risk decision will be pretty consequential for the AI industry and likely not in a productive way.”” https://x.com/jachiam0/status/2027531473319055581

US government just announced they are looking for a new supplier for their *checks notes* mass domestic surveillance”” https://x.com/janleike/status/2027521943491252501

What the frick: “”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”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2027517309120635120

We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court”” – Anthropic They are saying Department of War cannot restrict customers’ use of Claude outside of Dep of War contract work.”” https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/2027556624169381979

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