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I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the crazy thing. This whole dispute was over Anthropic saying no to fully automated kill bots. They only required there be a human in the loop to press the button.

There were two red lines, as I understand it -- first, automated kill bots, and second, mass surveillance.

No. There was only one red line.

Bend over and take or not.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this the same Administration that reversed a previous block, and allowed NVIDIA to sell H200 to China?

Well, you see, that's completely different. Nvidia agreed to give them money!

Silly me...its true!

- $1,000,000 donation from NVIDIA CORPORATION to the Trump–Vance Inaugural Committee.

- $1,000,000-per-head Mar-a-Lago dinner where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended.

- Jensen Huang’s contribution toward Trump’s "White House ballroom" project. Confirmed, but undisclosed value...lets says at least another $1,000,000?

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

#113

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Come to EU guys, we'll prepare a warm welcome!

EU won't do 996

We have other places outside of France, come on!

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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So they are such a risk to national security that no contractor that works with the federal government may use them, but they're going to keep using them for six more months? So I guess our national security is significantly at risk for the next six months?

Keep in mind that Anthropic “is the only A.I. company currently operating on the Pentagon’s classified systems” [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/defense-depart...

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

#115

So they are such a risk to national security that no contractor that works with the federal government may use them, but they're going to keep using them for six more months? So I guess our national security is significantly at risk for the next six months?

It's a waste of your effort to apply rational argument to the actions of a group that are in it for a shakedown.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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"They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as…

I don’t see a contradiction here. If control is out of the hands of decision makers, that’s a supply chain risk . Were it not for that, the service is seen as critical to national security.

I dunno, safeguard seems like a weasel word here. It’s just reserving control to one party over another. It’s understandable why the DoD(W) wouldn’t like that.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Given that Anthropic is clearly risking their entire business just to stand up for what they believe is right, which appears to be what everyone here agrees with, is everyone who is supporting them here planning to also start using Anthropic and switch away from other vendors until they follow suit? Or are folks planning to just use whatever regardless?

Edit: I should perhaps clarify I'm more interested in paid users, rather than free. It's harder to tell if free users switching would help them or hurt them... curious if anyone has thoughts on that too.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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It's nice to see Anthropic sticking to their terms. I just have one question in all this. Why is Anthropic being singled out when it seems all the other big players are down to play with the DoD? Is this just a pissing match, or have the Anthropic models been proven the real winner for them?

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Good. I'd rather not have my favorite AI from a company working on AGI to have murder and spying in it's DNA. In fact, as a patriotic American veteran, I'd be ok with Anthropic moving to Europe. It might be better for Claude and AGI, which are overriding issues for me. Rutger Bregman @rcbregman This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees. Eu…

I have my doubts about Anthropic wanting to pick up and move the entire company to Europe even if Ursula von der Leyen personally signed their visas. Maybe only if the government tried to nationalise their proprietary models.
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