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

Post by stdgy » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

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?

Post by __del__ » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

techblueberry wrote: post #2

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?

Post by mupuff1234 » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

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…

Post by GaggiX » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

daxfohl wrote: post #45

I'm convinced the only possible good end game here is if this leads to a showdown where GenAI is just made illegal full stop.

Post by eli » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

daxfohl wrote: post #45

I'm convinced the only possible good end game here is if this leads to a showdown where GenAI is just made illegal full stop.