This will be an interesting test of money vs morals. Sadly I think we all know which one will win.
It can be a win-win. Simply having a seat at the table can be a win.
Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
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#22If OpenAI employees have an inch of spine left, they better demand Sama to take the same stance on this as Dario. No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons.
yeah they should get up on stage and hold hands
https://fortune.com/2026/02/19/openai-anthropic-sam-altman-d...
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#23> But Anthropic has concerns over two issues that it isn’t willing to drop, the source said: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens.
Not a good look for the Pentagon.
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#25I can think of no stronger rationale to work with this company.
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#26Tangent: is there a future for AI offerings with guardrails? What kind of user wants to pay for a product that occasionally tells you "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"? Why would I pay for a product that doesn't do what I want, despite being capable? I predict that as AI becomes less of a bubble and more of an everyday thing - and thus subject to typical market pressures - offerings with guardrails will struggle to complete with truly unchained models.
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#27Not related to the article but man that "Fear/Greed Index" at the top. I can't imagine how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets. It's like they sell sadness and they have to keep finding new, over-the-top ways to promote it.
Would imagine they are a lot happier than all the doom, filth, and brain rot that is spewn all over social media.
I miss the days when the lowest common denominator did not have the largest bullhorn.
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#28I wonder if Anthropic now regrets that they trained Claude to give 'unbiased' opinions about American politics.
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#29Not related to the article but man that "Fear/Greed Index" at the top. I can't imagine how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets. It's like they sell sadness and they have to keep finding new, over-the-top ways to promote it.
Would imagine they are a lot happier than all the doom, filth, and brain rot that is spewn all over social media. I miss the days when the lowest common denominator did not have the largest bullhorn.
I consume very little social media these days, but when I take a short peek, here is what I see:
1.) Hockey highlights 2.) LoTR memes 3.) kittens
While the addictive nature of social media is a problem, what you're describing is only being fed to people who want to watch it (kinda like legacy media).
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#30This will be an interesting test of money vs morals. Sadly I think we all know which one will win.
They'll for sure cave in because of this: > Pentagon officials also warned they would either use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic, or designate Anthropic a supply chain risk if the company didn’t comply with their demands. (...) > The supply chain risk designation is usually reserved for companies seen as extensions of foreign adversaries like Russia or China. It could severely impact Anthropic’s business…
> pre-2022 Russia was seen and how pre-Trump-second-term US used to be seen until not that long ago, i.e. both governments were believed to be run by big business
Who on earth believed that Russia was anything but a de facto dictatorship for roughly the past two decades? Putin murdering with impunity has been a running gag since 2003[1].
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/putin-critics-dead-full-list-navaln...