"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk' — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios."
chrisjj•1h ago
> "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting business ties with Anthropic
No problem there, given their inability to agree contract terms.
> and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk'
Problem there. Looks like spite. US Govt. harming the supplier that won't play ball helps the competitors that might - and sends them a warning.
AnimalMuppet•1h ago
Paywalled. Anybody know why?
chrisjj•1h ago
To avoid, copy and paste the URL into a new tab.
Apparently the site is filtering against HN (and presumably some others') readers using HTTP REFERER.
jimmydoe•58m ago
Type in random fake email.
jimmydoe•56m ago
> Anthropic's Claude is the only AI model currently available in the military's classified systems
I’m surprised it was Claude, not other more MAGA adjacent model providers, has been the only one vendor.
jimmydoe•54m ago
Dario ‘s China Hawk is now more explainable, it’s not BAIDU traumatized him, but he has to yell out his loyalty to the USA.
defmacr0•1h ago
chrisjj•1h ago
No problem there, given their inability to agree contract terms.
> and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk'
Problem there. Looks like spite. US Govt. harming the supplier that won't play ball helps the competitors that might - and sends them a warning.