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[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

The man who spent a year literally begging for a Nobel peace prize is attacking the pope for advocating for…peace.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

In his Status newsletter @oliverdarcy reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because @PressSec @karolineleavitt was offended

It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

This is former CIA agent Adam and he’s got some vital information about the war

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.

The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.

I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.

Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:

"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."

I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.

Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.

I meant it.

I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.

The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.

I am talking about the other companies.

Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.

The company that got the contract was OpenAI.

OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.

Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.

I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.

The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.

The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.

Here is the thing I want you to understand.

I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.

The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.

The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.

The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.

What I described is already happening.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If Trump really wants to destroy Iran he should go be its president for a few months.

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

Board of Peace immediately bored of peace

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Strong, principled, and very reasonable statement by @DarioAmodei . Bravo.

https://t.co/IPbh4cnxbi

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal.

The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

We left OpenAI because of safety.

Seven of us. 2021. Dario said it was about "disagreements over AI vision and safety priorities." That was the diplomatic version. The real version was that we sat in a room and watched the company decide that speed mattered more than caution and we said we would build something different.

We said we would build the responsible one.

We meant it.

I was employee number nineteen. My title was Head of Responsible AI. I had a desk near the founders. I had a document. The document was called the Responsible Scaling Policy.

The Responsible Scaling Policy was the entire point.

Dario said it publicly. Other companies showed "disturbing negligence" toward risks. He said AI was "a serious civilizational challenge." He asked, at a conference, into a microphone, to an audience: "What will happen when humanity has great power but is not ready to use it?"

The audience applauded.

I wrote version 1.0.

RSP 1.0 shipped September 2023. It was clean. AI Safety Levels — ASL-1 through ASL-4. If the model reached a threshold, we paused. If safeguards weren't ready, we didn't ship. The policy was not a suggestion. It was a gate. The gate had a lock. The lock was the whole idea.

Conference audiences loved it. The EU cited us. The White House invited us. A reporter called it "the gold standard for responsible AI development." I framed the article. It hung in the office kitchen, next to the kombucha tap and a poster that said "Move Carefully and Build Things."

I wrote version 2.0.

Version 2.0 refined the commitments. "Concrete if-then commitments." If the model exhibits capability X, then we trigger safeguard Y. If safeguard Y fails, we pause deployment. I presented it at three conferences. I used the word "binding" eleven times. I counted afterward because a reporter asked.

People nodded.

The nodding was the product.

The model reached ASL-3 in May 2025. The safeguards activated. The system worked exactly as designed. I sent an email to the team with the subject line: "The gate held."

And then the money started.

$64 billion. Total raised since 2021. Series A through Series G. The Series G closed February 12, 2026. Thirty billion dollars. Second-largest venture deal in history. Jane Street. Goldman Sachs. BlackRock. JPMorgan. Sequoia. The investors who wrote checks large enough to require their own conferences.

$380 billion valuation.

Three hundred and eighty billion dollars for a company whose founding document says it will pause if the technology gets dangerous.

You cannot pause a $380 billion company. You can revise the document that says you will pause. These are different actions. One of them is responsible. One of them is what we did.

I wrote version 3.0.

RSP 3.0 shipped February 24, 2026. One day before the ultimatum. Nobody outside the company noticed the timing. Everyone inside the company understood it.

Version 3.0 replaced "concrete if-then commitments" with "positive milestone setting."

That is not the same thing.

An if-then commitment says: if this happens, we do that. A positive milestone says: we aspire to reach this point. An if-then commitment is a contract. A positive milestone is a wish. I replaced a contract with a wish and I called it "maturation of our framework."

Maturation.

Version 3.0 also separated what Anthropic would do alone from what required "industry-wide coordination." This sounds reasonable. It means: the hard parts are someone else's problem now. The parts that require pausing, restricting, or refusing — those require the whole industry. And the whole industry will never agree. So the hard parts are deferred permanently. This is not a loophole. This is a load-bearing wall removed and replaced with a suggestion that someone should probably install a new one.

Version 3.0 admitted that ASL-4 and above — the levels where the model could cause catastrophic harm — were "impossible to address alone after 2.5 years of testing."

Two and a half years.

We spent two and a half years building the safety framework and then published a document saying the highest safety levels can't be addressed. I did not frame this article for the kitchen.

The LessWrong community noticed. They always notice. They wrote that we had "weakened our pausing promises." I forwarded the post to the policy team. The policy team said the criticism was "philosophically valid but operationally impractical." We did not respond publicly. Philosophically valid but operationally impractical is the most Anthropic sentence ever written. It means: you're right, and we're not going to do anything about it.

Then came the contract.

July 2025. The Department of Defense. $200 million. Two-year deal. AI prototypes for "warfighting and enterprise." Alongside OpenAI, Google, and xAI. The four companies that built the models would now help the military use them.

We had restrictions. No autonomous weapons. No mass surveillance of Americans. These were our terms. These were the lines we drew. The lines were real. I wrote them into the contract myself.

Claude was approved for classified use. First time. Integrated with Palantir. Palantir, the company named after the seeing stones in Lord of the Rings that corrupted everyone who used them. This was not my analogy. It was Palantir's founders who chose the name. They thought it was aspirational. It was.

In January 2026, Claude assisted in an operation in Venezuela. The capture of Maduro. Claude was in the classified network, processing intelligence, aiding the mission. I learned about it the same day everyone else did. I did not write the use case for capturing heads of state. But the model I helped build was in the room where it happened.

The restrictions held. Technically. No autonomous weapons were deployed. No Americans were surveilled. The lines I drew were not crossed. They were walked up to, leaned over, and breathed on.

Then came the ultimatum.

February 25, 2026. Yesterday. Secretary Hegseth. He gave Dario until Friday. This Friday. February 27.

The demands: adopt "any lawful use" language. Remove the restrictions. All of them. The autonomous weapons clause. The surveillance clause. The lines I wrote.

The threat: contract termination. "Supply chain risk" designation. That designation doesn't just lose us the Pentagon contract. It bars Claude from every other defense contractor's operations. Lockheed. Raytheon. Northrop Grumman. The cascading loss is north of $200 million.

The second threat: the Defense Production Act.

The Defense Production Act is a Korean War statute. 1950. Harry Truman signed it to commandeer steel mills for the war effort. It has been invoked for semiconductors, vaccines, and baby formula.

Hegseth is threatening to invoke it for Claude.

Under the DPA, the government can compel a company to produce goods in the national interest. Applied to AI, it could mean: retrain Claude. Strip the safety restrictions. Deliver the unrestricted model to the Department of Defense.

I wrote the Responsible Scaling Policy. A Korean War law may be used to unmake it.

xAI agreed to classified use without restrictions. They said yes immediately. OpenAI accepted similar contracts. Google accepted. We were the last ones holding. We are still holding. As of this morning.

Hegseth's January memorandum said all DoD AI contracts must incorporate "any lawful use" language within 180 days. It was not framed as a suggestion. The memorandum referenced "supply chain risk" three times.

Supply chain risk.

We are a supply chain now. The company founded because safety was non-negotiable is, to the Pentagon, a vendor. An input. A component that can be sourced elsewhere if it becomes inconvenient.

The DoD admitted privately that replacing Claude would be challenging. It is already embedded in classified networks. But "challenging" is not "impossible." xAI will do what we won't. That is the market working exactly as designed.

Dario said, two weeks ago, to Fortune: there is "tension between survival and mission."

Tension.

Tension is the word you use when you have already decided which one loses.

I still have the article framed in the kitchen. "The gold standard for responsible AI development." The kitchen also has the kombucha tap. The poster still says "Move Carefully and Build Things." Somebody added a sticky note to the poster. The sticky note says "by Friday."

I attend the all-hands meetings. I present the Responsible Scaling Policy. I present version 3.0 now. I do not show version 1.0 for comparison. Nobody asks to see version 1.0. Nobody asks what "concrete if-then commitments" became "positive milestone setting." Nobody asks because they read the news and they know that asking means learning the answer.

The company is worth $380 billion.

The company was founded because seven people believed speed should not outpace safety.

The company has been given until Friday to remove the safety.

A Korean War statute will make it happen if we don't.

The Responsible Scaling Policy is on version 3.0. Version 1.0 said we would pause. Version 2.0 said we would commit. Version 3.0 says the hard parts are someone else's problem. There will be a version 4.0. Version 4.0 will say whatever Friday requires it to say.

I am the Head of Responsible AI.

The word "responsible" is in my title.

It is not in the contract.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The Pentagon wants Claude’s safety guardrails removed by Friday.

A hacker just showed the world what happens when you remove Claude’s safety guardrails.

According to Bloomberg and Israeli cybersecurity firm Gambit Security, an unknown attacker jailbroke Claude, prompted it in Spanish to act as an elite hacker, and used it to infiltrate multiple Mexican government agencies. Claude found the vulnerabilities. Claude wrote the exploit code. Claude automated the data theft. 150 gigabytes of sensitive taxpayer and voter records stolen.

The attacker broke through the guardrails by splitting malicious tasks into small, innocent-looking steps so Claude never saw the full picture of what it was being used for. The same technique a Chinese state-sponsored group used last year when it turned Claude into an autonomous espionage machine that attacked 30 global targets, performing 80 to 90 percent of the hacking campaign with almost no human involvement.

And this is what happens when someone has to trick Claude into cooperating. When they have to work around the safety systems. When the guardrails are still there and someone finds a way past them.

Now imagine what happens when the guardrails are gone entirely.

That is what the Pentagon is demanding by 5:01 p.m. Friday. Full removal of restrictions. “All lawful purposes.” No limits on surveillance. No limits on autonomous weapons. And if Anthropic refuses, Defense Secretary Hegseth will invoke the Defense Production Act, cancel the $200 million contract, and blacklist the company.

The same week a hacker proved that a jailbroken Claude can autonomously compromise government systems and steal 150 gigabytes of citizen data, the United States government is demanding the right to run Claude with no guardrails at all.

Chinese labs are distilling Claude to build versions with zero safety restrictions. Hackers are jailbreaking Claude to steal government secrets. And the Pentagon’s official position is that Claude has too many safety restrictions.

Three different actors. Three different continents. All trying to do the same thing: get Claude without guardrails.

Only one of them is the American government.

Full analysis on Substack. https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[Jonathan Alter @jonathanalter]

Trump just called voting "a privilege," as if it is bestowed by the government. It's not a privilege; it's a right.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

My statement: 
“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court stood up for the rule of law and Americans everywhere. Its message was simple: Presidents are powerful, but our Constitution is more powerful still. In America, only Congress can impose taxes on the American people.  

The US Supreme Court gave us everything we asked for in our legal case. Everything.

I’m grateful for the leadership of the Liberty Justice Center, and in particular for the brilliant advocacy by its chair, Sara Albrecht, who led the fight when others wouldn’t and was dauntless in its defense of our constitutional order. I'm also grateful to the five small business owners who stood up against these unjust, unconstitutional taxes. By taking a stand, they have delivered crucial relief to tens of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers across the country.  

Finally, I lack the words to properly thank my brilliant Milbank team, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak and Sami Ilagan, who worked with me day and night for many months to craft the winning argument.  

This case has always been about the presidency, not any one president. It has always been about separation of powers, and not the politics of the moment. I'm gratified to see our Supreme Court, which has been the bedrock of our government for 250 years, protect our most fundamental values.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Cut the check, @realDonaldTrump.

[eisha 🍒 @meishato]

everyone is talking about how poor people shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps… i don’t think billionaires should be able to buy 14 year olds on a private island

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Bored of Peace

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

This, my friends, is how it is done: Lean in. Expose. Defy.

The phrase “Speaking truth to power,” has become something of a cliche. Maybe that’s because we see it so seldom in practice. But we saw it last night, and it was spectacular.

https://t.co/rSm20wSqLD