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

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Post by nimonian »

Someone1234 wrote: post #53

Topics like this are where I struggle with HN philosophy. Normally avoiding politics and ideology where possible, created higher quality and more interesting discussions. But how do you even begin to discuss that Tweet or this topic without talking about ideology and to contextualize this with other seemingly unrelated things currently going on in the US? I genuinely don't think I'm conversationally agile enough to b…

I've been on hn for years and I see this kind of sentiment raised all the time. It is not my understanding of the guidelines.

Politics and ideology are not off topic, provided the subject matter is of interest, or "gratifying", to colleagues in the tech/start-up space.

What's important is that we don't use rhetoric, bad faith or argumentation to force our views on others. But expressing our opinions about how policy affects technology and vice versa has always been welcome, in my observation.

So, what do you think about the US government's decision, and why?

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

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Post by derektank »

whatsupdog wrote: post #252
ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are a "supply chain risk" if they can willy-nilly break their contract with US govt and enforce arbitrary rules to service. It is the US govt that seeks to break their contract with Anthropic. The contract they signed had the safeguards, so they were mutually agreed upon. These safeguards against fully autonomous killbots and AI spying of US citizens was known before signing. This conflict now is because the U…

> These safeguards against fully autonomous killbots and AI spying of US citizens was known before signing source?

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-h...

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

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Post by cco »

johnbarron wrote: post #51
NickAndresen wrote: post #15

"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…

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

I would not be surprised if an outcome of this may be a 10% government stake (maybe golden share owned by Trump) in Anthropic.

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

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Post by kouteiheika »

ctoth wrote: post #189
cal_dent wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The team that handles their PR has done an amazing job in the last 9 months

Hint: It's much easier to have good PR by being actually good. Though it does make people like this do the whole implication thing.

Ah, right, by being actually good, as in - being okay with mass surveillance as long as it isn't being done in the US, being okay with Claude assisting in killing people as long as it isn't fully autonomous, and being actively hostile to open-weight LLMs and open research on LLMs? This kind of "good"?

No, OP is right, their PR department is doing a great job.

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

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Post by baxtr »

outside2344 wrote: post #249
NickAndresen wrote: post #15

"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…

The real question we should be asking is what others HAVE agreed to. Has OpenAI just agreed to let the government go crazy with their models?

Can someone in plain terms explain what this is really about?

Anyone can use Claude afaik?

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Post by gritspants »

disiplus wrote: post #127
mikepurvis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a very clear differentiator for them relative to Google, Facebook, and OpenAI, all of whom are clearly varying degrees of willing to sell themselves out for evil purposes.

It will also cost openai dearly if they don't communicate clearly, because I for one will internally push to switch from openai (we are on azure actually) to anthropic. Besides that my private account also.

You can deploy Opus and Sonnet on Azure.

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

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Post by prpl »

easton wrote: post #24

> Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. I’m sure the lawyers just got paged, but does this mean the hyperscalers (AWS, GCP) can’t resell Claude anymore to US companies that aren’t doing business with the DoD? That’s rough.

have you tried punching in "Huawei" the shopping portal on google.com in the US?

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Post by blooalien »

xXSLAYERXx wrote: post #109
kilroy123 wrote: post #22

Strange times. I truly feel these are the last days of our Republic. Especially if more aren't willing to take a stand.

To counter point, do you think AI companies located on our adversaries turf will take the same stand? I agree its nightmarish to think of AI surveillance. But why is that being lumped in with weaponry? I see these as two separate issues.

> "I see these as two separate issues."

... in the same sense as the two sides of a coin are separate sides maybe.

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

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Post by beepbopboopp »

garbawarb wrote: post #228

This sounds like a message to would-be founders: don't base your company in the US. The strongest markets to do business are the ones with the most freedom from government meddling. In the US, big government is happy to use its power to crush private enterprise that it doesn't like.

Name one truly major market that is more business friendly
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