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[Rob @RealBeegRob]

PSA to all Apex comp teams who struggled to/didnt make it past day 1, I am LFT.

I was 2 points from making semis on my first run in CC last split.
-Picked up a last minute sub who we had zero practice with
-Sub DC'd multipe games

I will make your team better
MnK IGL/Co-IGL

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects every Android device worldwide. Learn more: https://t.co/7Hb2evURPg @AlteredDeal #KeepAndroidOpen

[lystic @Lystic__]

not hating but if u can only play one or two heroes u should be expecting to be dropped from a team

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@Peer_Content @fpslounge_ @8inkster @pvrkie yo hop on deadlock goats

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@fpslounge_ @Peer_Content @8inkster @pvrkie Peer

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@sama 🧢

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@wholemars The language of OpenAI's deal is looser so not exactly "same terms"

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

@kunundrum_619 Yeah, well thank God we're not China.

We can beat them without becoming them.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Anthropic’s limits are reasonable.

No spying on Americans, no robots deciding who dies.

But the American people should set those limits, not tech execs.

Congress should’ve passed sensible laws already - and AI companies should follow those laws.

Congress needs to hurry up.

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@FZaslavskiy @chrisgpt Key difference, the entire F35 program was commissioned and funded by the DoD. Anthropic is a private company owned and operated by private citizens. Private capital created Anthropic and so they have a right to set their terms of use. Just as DoD did when they created F35 prog

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@QuoTheObserver @DaveShapi None of the models are aligned and they all hallucinate... a lot

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@lamps_apple @AlexBores This is emergent tech. The laws, lawmakers, and general public are not nearly up to date on the capabilities or limitations of this technology. We can move fast to implement and iterate, while still respecting the safety risks and concerns. Amodei's concerns are valid.

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@DarlingtonDev @PalmerLuckey No, its not. If DoW doesn't like the terms find another provider don't black ball a US company for exhibiting their right to set terms of use on their product.

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@ilyasut Waiting for @xai and @GeminiApp to make a public statement the topic

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

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 fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.

[David Veksler ₿🔑👌 @HeroicLife]

Nobody is calling Dario Amodei mid-combat for permission to use a weapon system. That's not how DoD software contracts work and you know it. Claude is a large language model — it summarizes intelligence, translates documents, and analyzes data. It's not a weapons guidance system. The scenario you're describing doesn't exist.

And if mass surveillance is already illegal, put it in the contract. Anthropic has said publicly that's all they need. You're refusing to write down a prohibition on something you claim you'd never do, then calling the other side liars for asking. That's not a national security position — it's a negotiating tactic being performed on Twitter for an audience that doesn't know how defense procurement actually works.

[Bryan Thanos @BryanThanos]

@USWREMichael @DeptofWar @DarioAmodei Brutal community note

[Emerson T. Brooking @etbrooking]

I did not expect our country’s (and the world’s) most effective enterprise AI developer to show the moral backbone that American universities, media, and law firms have each forgotten when faced with lesser pressure.

[Rob @RealBeegRob]

@imrtlsaij @Yahskapar @SeanParnellASW 1) It is not the DoW's job to interpret or enforce laws either.
2) Anthropic just like every other company has the right to dictate the terms of use of their products. Don't like it don't buy it.
3) Jack Paul is clearly a bot

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@SeanParnellASW “We don’t intend to use it for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. We just want the version with those two safeguards removed for, uh, reasons.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic is running a masterclass in negotiation-as-marketing right now.

The $200M Pentagon contract represents 1.4% of Anthropic’s $14 billion run rate, up 14x from $1 billion fourteen months ago. This is not a number worth compromising a brand over. Amodei knows this. The Pentagon knows this. So why is he personally publishing a detailed statement, point by point, timed for maximum news cycle impact?

Because every headline that reads “AI company refuses Pentagon’s demands on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance” is worth more than the contract. Anthropic just bought the most expensive brand positioning in AI history, and the Pentagon is paying for it.

The statement is surgically written. Amodei opens by affirming he believes in using AI to defend democracies. Lists every classified deployment Anthropic pioneered. Emphasizes they’ve never objected to specific military operations. Then draws two narrow lines: no mass surveillance of Americans, no fully autonomous weapons. The framing makes it almost impossible to argue against without sounding like you’re pro-surveillance.

The Pentagon’s negotiator called Amodei a “liar” with a “God complex.” The Pentagon threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act and label Anthropic a supply chain risk simultaneously. Amodei pointed out those two threats are contradictory: one says Anthropic is dangerous, the other says Claude is essential. That line will be in every news story for the next 48 hours. It was designed to be.

Sen. Tillis, a Republican not seeking reelection, broke with the administration on the record. Said the Pentagon was being “unprofessional” and that you should listen when a company turns down money out of concern for consequences. Anthropic didn’t have to lobby for that. The positioning did the work.

Every enterprise buyer evaluating AI vendors just watched Anthropic publicly refuse to let a customer override their safety commitments. For a company selling to regulated industries, that demo is priceless.

The 5:01pm Friday deadline is tomorrow. Anthropic will either keep the contract with safeguards intact or lose it and gain something more valuable: permanent differentiation in a market where every other lab said yes.