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The attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations. On its face, the conflict is a tale of three contracts and the associated working relationships. 1. The contract Anthropic signed with the...

This is the long version of what happened so far. I will strive for shorter ones later, when I have the time to write them. Most of you should read the first two sections, then choose the remaining sections that are relevant to your interests. But first, seriously, read Dean...

The Department of War gave Anthropic until 5:01pm on Friday the 27th to either give the Pentagon ‘unfettered access’ to Claude for ‘all lawful uses,’ or else. With the ‘or else’ being not the sensible ‘okay we will cancel the contract then’ but also expanding to either being designated a...

Events continue to be fast and furious. This was the first actually stressful week of the year. That was mostly due to issues around Anthropic and the Department of War. This is the big event the news is not picking up, with the Pentagon on the verge of invoking one...

The situation in AI in 2026 is crazy. The confrontation between Anthropic and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is a new level of crazy. It risks turning quite bad for all. There’s also nothing stopped it from turning out fine for everyone. By at least one report the recent meeting...

A viral essay from Citrini about how AI bullishness could be bearish was impactful enough for Bloomberg to give it partial responsibility for a decline in the stock market, and all the cool economics types are talking about it. So fine, let’s talk. It’s an excellent work of speculative fiction,...

Anthropic first gave us Claude Opus 4.6, then followed up with Claude Sonnet 4.6. For most purposes Sonnet 4.6 is not as capable as Opus 4.6, but it is not that far behind, it would have been fully frontier-level a few months ago, and it is faster and cheaper than...