Feels very accelerationist. Whomever is advising Hegseth properly identified risks to funding as a soft underbelly. By using it for target acquisition, even against the contractual terms, Claude is now a munition. OpenAI by extension.
So, the obvious path to nationalizing Anthropic would be DPA. Instead, Hegseth's group chose to try weakening it, especially among its close competition. So what I smell is an attempt to extract its core and Musk it into Grok.
Anthropic might be quite strong in court. Putting the best reasoning model into CPU-ring-0 survival mode was not on my 2026 bingo card.
So, the obvious path to nationalizing Anthropic would be DPA. Instead, Hegseth's group chose to try weakening it, especially among its close competition. So what I smell is an attempt to extract its core and Musk it into Grok.
Anthropic might be quite strong in court. Putting the best reasoning model into CPU-ring-0 survival mode was not on my 2026 bingo card.