Pete Hegseth punishes company for trying to protect the privacy of its customers
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It’s a real turducken of authoritarianism here:
The federal government will stop working with Anthropic and designate the artificial intelligence company a supply-chain risk, a dramatic escalation of the government’s clash with the company over how its technology can be used by the Pentagon.
“I am directing every federal agency in the United States government to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it and will not do business with them again!” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The Defense Department and other agencies using Anthropic’s Claude models will have a six-month phaseout period, he said, adding that there would be civil and criminal consequences if the company isn’t helpful during the transition.
Trump’s announcement came shortly before the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic to agree to let the military use its models in all lawful-use cases, a concession the company had refused to make. “We cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday.
The federal government blacklisting AI companies unless they go they full Thiel is a problem on multiple levels, Anyway, I’d say it’s time for another round of the TWITTER FILES!