Anthropic said no thx to Pentagon, OpenAI said deal, xAI already there—chaos



It's amazing how many US techbros are bleating that Anthropic should help the US government build autonomous murderbots and mass domestic surveillance tools. It must really burn their diodes that OpenAI and other firms are coming out in support of Anthropic's principled stance.
The Department of Defense just agreed to the same two conditions with OpenAI that Anthropic was asking for. - Anthropic was asking for their promise in writing, as they don't trust this admin to NOT bait and switch. - Sam fell for the "trust me bro" from Hegseth That's literally it

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