Pete Hegseth also threatened to take, by dictat, everything Anthropic has. He can do that with the Defense Industrial Act or whatever its called if he designates them as critical to national defense.

It would've been better PR for Anthropic to let Hegseth do that instead of fold at the slightest hint of pressure and lost contract money. I've canceled my Claude subscription over this (and made sure to let them know in the feedback).

He seems to be the driving force behind all this. Mediocrities are attracted to AI like moths.

The press always say "the Pentagon negotiates". Does any publication have an evidence that it is "the Pentagon" and not Hegseth? In general, I see a lot of common sense from the real Pentagon as opposed to the Secretary of War.

I hope Westpoint will check for AI psychosis in their entrance interviews and completely forbid AI usage. These people need to be grounded.

Hmm, that could be the best "IPO" they'll ever get. Better check if Trump Jr.'s 1789 capital has shares like they did in groq (note the "q").