The U.S. just accidentally admitted two things:
1. AI is for monitoring Americans.
2. AI is for building autonomous weapons.
Anthropic simply said “we won’t help with that,” and Washington reacted like someone exposed their entire playbook.
If this isn’t panic, it’s guilt speaking.
Leslie Wexner. Jeffrey Epstein. Peter Mandelson. Jean-Luc Brunel.
All four together.
Wexner testified under oath he "never met Brunel."
The photo is in the files.
The interesting twist here is that Claude models are far better fit to govt needs than Open AI ones, which will give Europe, and Canada, a massive head start.
This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees.
Europe already controls the AI hardware bottleneck through ASML. Add the world's leading AI safety lab and you have the foundations of an AI superpower.
JD Vance 9 months before the Trump administration launched a new regime change war: " Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change. We do not want to protract this or build this out any more than it's already been built out."
Anthropic just announced it will take the Trump administration to court over the supply chain risk designation. And in the same breath, Axios revealed the detail that changes everything about this story.
While Anthropic was being blacklisted for refusing to allow mass surveillance, the Pentagon’s own “compromise deal” that Under Secretary Emil Michael was offering on the phone at the exact moment Hegseth posted the designation on X would have required Anthropic to allow the collection and analysis of Americans’ geolocation data, web browsing history, and personal financial information purchased from data brokers.
Read that again. The Pentagon spent two weeks saying it has no interest in mass surveillance of Americans. Then the deal they actually put on the table asked for access to your location, your browsing history, and your financial records.
They told us Anthropic was lying. The contract language told us Anthropic was right.
Now here is where this becomes an existential question for a $380 billion company.
The supply chain risk designation means every company that does business with the Pentagon must certify they do not use Claude. Eight of the ten largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, cloud providers, consulting firms, banks. The blast radius is not the $200 million Pentagon contract. It is the enterprise ecosystem that generates $14 billion in annual revenue.
Anthropic’s legal argument is specific: under 10 USC 3252, the designation can only restrict use of Claude on Pentagon contract work. Your commercial API access, your https://t.co/koW5OJjjaM subscription, your enterprise license are, in Anthropic’s reading, completely unaffected.
But here is the problem. That is a legal argument. It will take years to resolve in court. And in the meantime, every general counsel at every Fortune 500 company with any Pentagon exposure is going to ask one question: is using Claude worth the risk?
The IPO, which was expected this year at a $380 billion valuation backed by $30 billion in fresh capital, is functionally frozen. No underwriter will price an offering while a company carries the same designation as Huawei.
And here is the final detail nobody has processed yet. Hours after blacklisting Anthropic, the Pentagon accepted OpenAI’s proposed safety framework, which contains the identical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons.
They destroyed one company for a position they then accepted from its competitor.
Full analysis on Substack. https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ
🇨🇺 Cuba released footage of the arsenal from the Florida speedboat that fired on their coast guard.
25 firearms, 12,846 rounds, silencers, Starlink terminals, and full military kits.
Someone has explaining to do.
Bill Gates fucked a Russian prostitute sent by the SVR foreign intelligence.
Wealthy losers who have no charisma and are naturally repulsive to women are the greatest threat to our national security.
Here's the honeypot that gave him the STDs, with convicted SVR spy Anna Chapman.
Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.
Sam Altman is such an incredible backstabber, liar and traitor.
While your competitor is taking a heroic and principled stand, you swoop in to make your deal. Imagine working for this guy - is there a greater shame?
This should lead to a mass exodus from OpenAI.
FLASHBACK — CHARLIE KIRK: “We are just gonna take out the ayatollah? Oh really? What comes next? What happens after regime change? Might be we just need a small number of troops… we have seen this play before. With regime change you have no idea how this is gonna work out.”
So in Davos, you declared that you were "taking down the sign" on the false rules-based order. Seems like it's up again. Or perhaps your rapture speech was wrongly interpreted as a recommittment to international law?
A term that doens't even appear in your disgraceful statement supporting Trump's illegal war.
The only real journalist in Australia who’s prepared to call out the appalling bullshit @AlboMP has said in our name, effectively condoning the blatantly illegal, disgraceful US-Israel slaughter of yet more civilians, this time in #Iran#auspol
@RadioFreeTom It's a preemptive "move" to attempt political "survival" by two desperate autocrats. An unprovoked attack on a party that was at the diplomatic negotiating table, making all the concessions it needed to make. Now the whole Middle East region is suffering the consequences.