irl_danb · TEXXR

Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

2026-03-03 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

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Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

2026-03-03 View on X

Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...

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Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

2026-03-02 View on X

Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. — ― Pericles

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Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

2026-03-02 View on X

Hyperdimensional

The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity

On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.

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Ben Thompson, as always, lays out the reality more clearly than I could have, despite my attempts by Dario's own words, he's building something akin to nukes he's simultaneously challenging the US government's authority to decide how to wield said power as much as I like [image]

2026-03-02 View on X

The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

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Dario builds the thing then in the span of two weeks opts out of letting both the lobster people and the pentagon hawks use it what good is your aligned ASI if all the machines you thumb your nose at will run the misaligned ASI instead?

2026-02-17 View on X

Axios

A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …

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Dario builds the thing then in the span of two weeks opts out of letting both the lobster people and the pentagon hawks use it what good is your aligned ASI if all the machines you thumb your nose at will run the misaligned ASI instead?

2026-02-17 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission

Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled …

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Dario builds the thing then in the span of two weeks opts out of letting both the lobster people and the pentagon hawks use it what good is your aligned ASI if all the machines you thumb your nose at will run the misaligned ASI instead?

2026-02-16 View on X

Axios

A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …

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Dario builds the thing then in the span of two weeks opts out of letting both the lobster people and the pentagon hawks use it what good is your aligned ASI if all the machines you thumb your nose at will run the misaligned ASI instead?

2026-02-16 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission

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a couple weeks ago I wrote a https://prose.md/ program that spawns an agent swarm to scan your skills directory for vulnerabilities. try it: npx skills add openprose/prose then, in your favorite agent harness: prose run irl-danb/skill-scan

2026-01-29 View on X

The Register

Security researchers warn Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, requires a specialist skillset to use safely, as data exposure risks persist even when set up correctly

The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

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