Samar Birwadker
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Samar Birwadker
@samar
I build stuff.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2011
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The CEO of the most advanced AI company in America just went on national television (Save this)
Hours after his company was blacklisted by the US government.
Here's what he said.
Dario Amodei built the only AI deployed inside the Pentagon's classified networks.
His company helped run military operations, intelligence, cyber defense.
Then the government told him to drop all safety limits.
He said no to two things.
Just two.
"One is domestic mass surveillance."
He explained: the government can already buy your location data, your browsing history, your political affiliations from private companies.
AI makes it possible to analyze all of it.
On every American, all at once.
"That actually isn't illegal. It was just never useful before the era of AI."
"Case number two is fully autonomous weapons."
Not the drones used in Ukraine and the remote-controlled systems.
Weapons that select targets and fire without a single human pressing a button.
"The AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough."
"We don't want to sell something that could get our own people killed or that could get innocent people killed."
He approved 98% of what the Pentagon wanted.
"No one on the ground has actually run into the limits of any of these exceptions."
The government wasn't fighting over something it needed.
It was fighting over the right to have no limits at all.
They gave him three days.
He said no.
So the President called his company "radical left woke."
Then ordered every federal agency to stop using their technology.
Then the Pentagon labeled them a national security risk.
A designation that has only ever been used against foreign enemies.
When asked if he'd received any formal legal action, he said this:
"All we've seen are tweets from the president and tweets from Secretary Hegseth."
No letter, filing or a legal document.
"When we receive some kind of formal action, we will look at it, we will understand it, and we will challenge it in court."
He said the Defense Secretary lied about the law.
Hegseth tweeted that any company with military contracts can't do business with Anthropic "at all."
Amodei: "That is not what the law said."
"The nature of the tweet was designed to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt."
Asked if this was an abuse of power, he paused.
Then said:
"This designation has never happened before with an American company."
"It was made very clear that this was retaliatory and punitive."
"I don't know what else to call it."
Asked if Anthropic could survive, he didn't hesitate.
"Not only survive it. We're gonna be fine."
Then the final question.
"If you had a moment with the President right now tonight, what would you say to him?"
"We are patriotic Americans."
"Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country."
"The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values."
"Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world."
"And we are patriots."
A CEO just went on national television and told the President of the United States:
You can blacklist us.
You can call us names.
You can threaten our business through tweets.
But we will not build machines that spy on Americans or kill without human hands.
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The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies. For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens. Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade. Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything. This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum. Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want. The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no. Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines. No mass surveillance of Americans. No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger. The Pentagon called this “woke AI.” Anthropic called it a conscience. The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies. President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately. But here’s where the story turns. That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message. “Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.” The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding. No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons. Human control over the use of force. The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day. Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier. “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.” Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get. Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks. Replacing it will take months. OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military. The stakes are staggering. Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO. Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties. Not because the technology failed. Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.” But here’s the real question no one’s asking: If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on? Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter? Sam Altman called for de-escalation. He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company. Including Anthropic. The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.” Bookmark and share this.
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Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:
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This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange they will develop a tech industry that makes the U.S. dominant for a century.
They did the first part, then built monopolies to try to keep out competition rather than continue to innovate at a top level, and then got out-competed by Chinese companies in both AI and social media. They are the losers we always thought they were — and now so are we.
Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸@broseph_stalin
For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today. China released multiple AI models that are 50x more efficient than the best American AI models and made them open source, ruining the AI market
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Kids are awesome. Nothing will make you happier.
KanekoaTheGreat@KanekoaTheGreat
My daughter has started babbling her first words, and it’s the cutest thing ever. Starting a family has been the most rewarding journey of my life—I can’t recommend it enough.
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VCs competing to fund these nouveau edgelords like it’s a reverse Hunger Games
Overfit Quantitative Strategies@OverfitQuantit1
The Silicon Valley dream: burning VC money to launch a chatGPT wrapper so you can get invited at podcasts to discuss your AGI timeline and become a Grimes reply guy
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These kind of teardowns are why I'm spending more time on X. Good luck finding this investigative analysis on LinkedIn.
Great work @RobertMSterling, surprising details I had no idea about! E.g. 10x the 85k limit/year is just nuts! How has this gone unnoticed for so long!?
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling
H-1B DATA MEGA-THREAD 🧵 I downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4M+ records) and spent the day crunching data. I went into this with an open mind, but, to be honest, I'm now *extremely* skeptical of how this program works. Here's what I found 👇
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@8teAPi Or, hear me out... we’re just addicted to watching people try to compress their superiority complex into 280 characters
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@cre_cashflow Ah, the ol' trauma of watching compound interest work backwards in first class
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My net worth is over $22 million yet I still can’t justify paying extra to fly first class. Am I crazy?
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@JacobKinge $20B in new Tether is like watching someone print Monopoly money while insisting it’s totally backed by Boardwalk 🤪
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There’s one reason why BTC is above $100K—and it’s the same reason why it will crash below $10K again.
The entire market is a bubble, fueled by a fraudulent Chinese entity called Tether. For years, Tether has manipulated prices and artificially propped up this market.
With the new DOJ investigation and impending regulations under the Trump administration next year, Tether’s clock is ticking. Since Nov 6, they’ve minted a staggering $20 billion in $USDT, which also induces retail FOMO.
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@gregisenberg Love how YC’s RFS went from ‘make something people want’ to ‘make something the government desperately needs but won’t admit/realize it wants.
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Y Combinator's "request for startups” - Winter 2025 edition
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@pitdesi The real assumption you missed: SPOT isn’t a music company, it’s a habit company. Netflix loses shows, we shrug. Spotify loses our carefully curated workout playlist? Emotional damage. (That’s why they’re worth $100B and we're here talking about it)
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Help me understand Spotify - it just crossed $100B in market cap and I'm not an investor. I had the chance to invest while it was private and I got a fundamental assumption wrong, and I'm still not exactly sure what I missed.
My assumption: I thought the artists and record labels would have too much power in the relationship with Spotify, because Spotify needs to have a complete catalog.
Netflix doesn't need a complete library of every movie or TV show (you only watch them once, users subscribe to multiple video services), but music listeners want virtually all songs in the app.
My assumption was that If Taylor Swift says she's moving off Spotify, they lose millions of customers and do whatever they can to keep her. Tay-Tay has a lot of power in the relationship and can extract a lot of value, eroding margins. But it doesn't seem like that has happened. The only artist I can think of who isn't on Spotify is Garth Brooks. Now of course Spotify itself is such a behemoth that they have a lot of power in the relationship... but how did it get to be that way?
Probably just a misunderstanding of the music industry... thoughts?
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AI is about to eat every indefensible CRUD app. And almost no one sees it coming.
ServiceTitan: $9.5B valuation $TTAN
~$700M+ ARR
~12,000 customers
>110% NRR
But here's the thing: they're ultimately well-executed CRUD applications with no moat for plumbers, HVAC, lawncare, etc.....
Let me show you something wild.
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Peter Thiel reluctantly agreed with Elon Musk's belief that if the Democratic Party won the 2024 election, it could consolidate power into a one-party state.
"I didn't want to believe Elon when he said this, so I texted him and told him I hadn't believed you when you said this at first. But I think this is because, psychologically, I don't want to believe that."
"The sense in which I felt that he was correct was if Trump, with much better substance and much better on so many things, could not win in 2024 against the machine, then the machine would always win."
"And if the machine always wins, then you no longer have a democracy. You certainly no longer have a democratic process within the Democratic Party. We can always debate the election shenanigans in November 2020."
"The far more extraordinary thing was in March of 2020 when Biden came in fourth or fifth in Iowa and New Hampshire and then somehow got rammed through South Carolina. All the other candidates drop out."
"So, this extremely non-democratic primary in the Democratic Party in 2020 led to an even less democratic process in which Biden was replaced with Harris."
"If the machine could defeat Trump, I thought it was reasonable that it would gain even more power and somehow be unbeatable, and the country would become like California, a one-party state."
@elonmusk
@peterthiel
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