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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@iScienceLuvr Putting “Ph.D.” in your social media name is a sure sign of a pompous retard

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why.

[ForsythiaZaragoza @MyFizzybamboo]

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[🏴‍☠️InTylerWeTrust🏴‍☠️🥃🤍 @bourbonislife80]

Trump got 34 felonies, 3 baby mommas, been shot, and kidnapped a sitting President. He running our government like Death Row Records from the 90's.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

True. And guess where those Biden AI staffers went to work as soon as the admin was over? Anthropic.

[bone @boneGPT]

Anthropic got itself killed to impress a bunch of internet lesbians.

the Renee Good of AI

[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.

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

The Iran strikes make the Anthropic fight and that 5:01pm Fri deadline make a lot more sense

The Pentagon wasn’t arguing about hypothetical use cases. They needed unrestricted AI access for an operation they were launching THAT SAME NIGHT

Friday: Ban Anthropic. Sign OpenAI. Secure classified AI access.

Saturday: Bombs falling on Tehran.
Two aircraft carriers. Dozens of strike aircraft. Weeks of military buildup.

They weren’t debating the future of AI in warfare. They were fully preparing to use it

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Paramount has bought Warner Bros. for $110 billion and paid a $2.8 billion breakup fee to Netflix. CNN now has brand new owners, who say they want honest and fair journalism. If that’s true, look out, a ton of CNN employees are going to get fired.

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

Imagine having fuck you money, no wife, no kids, and you're bragging about how you get a full night's sleep lmao.

These "optimization" guys are such nerds, I can't imagine hanging out with these people all day it must be exhausting.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic is trying to damage control on its “supply chain risk” designation, but the damage is done.

Their legal argument is airtight. 10 USC 3252 only covers Department of War contract work. Commercial API access, https://t.co/Y12dF7zTQN, enterprise deployments: all untouched by the statute. Hegseth claimed contractors can’t do any commercial business with Anthropic. Anthropic’s lawyers correctly responded that the Secretary doesn’t have that authority.

But procurement lawyers at Fortune 500 companies skip the statute and go straight to the headline. And the headline is that Anthropic just landed on the same list as Huawei. That comparison will do more damage than any legal mechanism.

Huawei’s supply chain risk designation destroyed its U.S. enterprise business over 18 months. The technical scope was narrow. The practical scope was total. Procurement teams that saw “supply chain risk” flagged the vendor, escalated to compliance, and found alternatives.

Anthropic runs at $14 billion in annualized revenue with eight of the Fortune 10 as customers. The Pentagon contract was $200 million, 1.4% of revenue. Trivial direct hit. The indirect hit from enterprise procurement teams explaining to their boards why they’re buying AI from a company the U.S. government called a national security risk? That’s where the damage compounds.

Every defense contractor running Claude on non-Pentagon work technically can keep doing so. In practice, their compliance teams will start scoping alternatives Monday morning. Every company that might want Pentagon business someday will weigh the optics of a blacklisted vendor.

Anthropic is right on the law. Most enterprise buyers care more about being safe than being right.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

This was just an undocumented attack, not illegal.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

In a democracy, it’s absolutely ok to define who can use the things you make and how.

But it’s also absolutely ok for the Government to lose trust in you, tell you to fuck off and find an alternative.

It’s also absolutely ok for you to nuke your own company in the process.

The timing of this is not good for Anthropic and could be a potential boon to every other model that is exceeding expectations in their upcoming version (Grok, OAI, Gemini).

More generally, I don’t see how this isn’t a slippery slope. What if a model maker updates their ToS that would block a use case that is legal but subjective? Agreeable in some states but not in others? What about in different countries with different governance or religions?

It’s a huge can of worms.

How can a government or company rely on a model that could have an ever-changing definition of what’s allowed without taking on major business/governance risk?

They won’t.

My hunch is that the company that embraces the “no holds barred” ToS will win because it’s the least risky to adopt wrt long term risk of getting rug-pulled.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

Iran is about to find out why we have $39 trillion in national debt

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Woke tech is a national security threat.

[Johnny @htownrocket78]

Supreme Leader is like regular leader but with sour cream and tomatoes.

[Jacob Edward @JacobEdwardInc]

Neither of these men are married or have kids.

Both are simply obsessed with their own personal perfection and optimization.

There is nothing impressive about a single man with no kids sleeping well and being fit.

Show me a man with young children, a full time job, disrupted sleep, who works out regularly, eats healthy, trains Jui Jitsu, with a muscular body…

THIS is impressive. THIS requires extreme discipline.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die —ever. Do you believe this?” (Jn. 11:25-26)

Pretty audacious thing for a person to say if he wasn't actually God. It's a good thing then, that Jesus is.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This ICE situation is really complex. My take is more nuanced. I want our immigration laws to be enforced but I just want them to do it without using any force, and without anyone ever getting hurt, and without anything sad or upsetting happening ever, and if the people we’re trying to deport don’t want to be deported, or if liberal activists don’t want us to deport them, then obviously in that case we shouldn’t do it, but I’m totally a conservative on the issue, unless people get really mad at me then never mind please don’t yell I’m sorry.