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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
According to OpenAI, their contract with the US DoW locks in current law, “”even if those laws or policies change in the future””. Our legal analysis, with Virgil Law CEO @LukeVerswey, shows that this is almost certainly incorrect.”” https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2028556035183759719
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/
Big loss for OpenAI, big win for Anthropic: Max schwarzer changes teams”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2028952074063331421
Following the bad PR for OpenAI regarding the DoW agreement, GPT-5.4 will probably be released very soon to steer the conversation towards the new model and the improvements.”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2028803185347875207
How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/887309/openai-anthropic-dod-military-pentagon-contract-sam-altman-hegseth
I have no inside information about what happened with the government, Anthropic & OpenAI yesterday, but AI is only going to get more disruptive & what we saw publicly (sudden escalations, lack of transparency, lack of clarity), was a bad pattern for navigating the decisions ahead”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2027774533587873815
It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for”” https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2027486969174102261
NEW: When OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal Friday night, people immediately challenged Sam Altman’s claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had said it would never do so? The answer, sources told me, is that it didn’t.”” https://x.com/haydenfield/status/2028481498781790567
OpenAI wants you to just trust them that the NSA is excluded from their contract. Katrina seems to believe she has been “”very transparent,”” but there are many issues: -Two days ago, you promised “”a clear and more comprehensive explanation shortly”” of how the NSA is excluded.”” https://x.com/sjgadler/status/2028899096283758732
Our agreement with the Department of War | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
Read Anthropic CEO’s Memo Attacking OpenAI’s ‘Mendacious’ Pentagon Announcement — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/read-anthropic-ceos-memo-attacking-openais-mendacious-pentagon-announcement
State Department switches to OpenAI as US agencies start phasing out Anthropic | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropic-products-says-bessent-2026-03-02/
(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first “”real deal”” decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past”” https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299
Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: “”• Consistent with applicable laws,”” https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739
I’d like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027900042720498089
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027578508042723599
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
AI Safety Has 12 Months Left – by Michael Dempsey https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/ai-safety-has-12-months-left
Today, OpenAI is launching the Deployment Safety Hub — a new site that turns our system cards from static PDFs into something you can easily search, browse, and share. https://t.co/qXWFVbw7Sa System cards are the most detailed window we provide into the technical work behind”” https://x.com/dgrobinson/status/2027458289517068511
@sama Key takeaways: 1. Until I see actual contract language, and get real experts to review it, I trust this exactly nil. Always get the language in natsec contracting. Always, always, always. 2. You really do think that the most classic dodge in intelligence oversight,”” https://x.com/David_Kasten/status/2028649586349228284
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