This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

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@SecWar Kudos to Anthropic for standing up for what’s right.

“When Secretary Hegseth tweeted out the supply chain designation, he said something that was inaccurate, that far exceeds their lawful authority. He said that any company that has a military contract can’t do business with Anthropic at all. That is not what the law said.” @DarioAmodei @AnthropicAI

#Anthropic has made it clear that your desire to use their #AI on #Americans is contrary to the #Constitution. No American wants the government, much less the military, to have uncontrolled and unrestrained the power to collect information about them. And no one wants a drunk TV talking head, who parades about as Rambo, making any decisions of this magnitude, without strict #Congressional oversight and control.

@SecWar This is Communism, plain and simple. @AnthropicAI and @DarioAmodei are NOT an arm of the United States government, and this thuggish application of political pressure by the Trump Administration and @SecWar is straight out of the Soviet playbook

@SecWar 100% pure fascism. Anthropic wanted the govt to agree they wouldn't use their software TO SPY ON AMERICANS trump & Hegseth didn't like that. THEY WANT TO SPY ON AMERICANS So you didn't come to an agreement - BUT THAT IS NO NEED TO DRAG THEM THRU THE MUD -- THAT IS FASCISM

@SecWar Genuinely it is weird that an ex tv presenter should be making a decision to hobble one of the top American enterprise exports in the last 50 years and hand competitive advantage to the Chinese. All because they won’t bend the knee (aka drop their pants)? Wow! Go Hegseth!

I LOVE THE TRANSPARENCY OF PRESIDENT @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @PapiTrumpo 's CABINET AND ADMINISTRATION!!!!!! THANK YOU @SecWar !!!!! THANK YOU FOR INFORMING US, WE THE PEOPLE!!!! ANTHROPIC IS TOAST!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 THIS IS A FANTASTIC WONDERFUL REPORT @SecWar !!!! WE ARE AT WAR WITH THE DEEP STATE/SWAMP ON SO MANY LEVELS AND ON SO MANY STATES OF BEING, AS A COUNTRY AND WORLD WIDE!!!! "THE PLAN" IS A HUGE MILITARY OPERATION!!!! HUGE!!!! AND WE WILL WIN!!!!! THE DEEP STATE WILL LOOSE!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE DEAR WHITE HAT BENEVOLENT MILITARY!!!! MAGA!!!! LOVE THIS!!!! KEEP GOING!!!!

@SecWar You have shown your true colors and your iconic hypocrisy. You should be honoring Anthropic, not crucifying it. Anthropic made this happen along with brave American war fighters. This wasn’t possible without it. Remember that and put your ego aside for a minute.

@SecWar Dictators do this.

@SecWar So brittle. This reads like off the scale shadow projection by this US Defence Sec’ doesn’t it? They seem to think they’re creating the thousand year Reich rather than just badly bruising the republic. So depressing for fellow NATO members to witness the hysteria.

@SecWar Sometimes the party with whom you want to make a deal is not willing to make the same deal. Adults accept that and move on.

"Full, unrestricted access for every lawful purpose" is a serious claim. Lawful protects liberty only if the law itself is constitutionally limited. A private company setting terms for how its product may be used is not seizing veto power over the military. It is exercising freedom of contract. If the government disagrees, it can seek alternatives. Loyalty to the Republic means fidelity to objective law, not submission to unrestricted power.

@SecWar Software Companies cannot and should not make the big decisions at this level. Stand down if it's not what you do, that's fine, stay in lane. It ain't Rocket Science unless your Elon 🚀

@SecWar @Grok Could you briefly tell me what Hegseth is talking about? While answering, bear in mind I'm so out of the loop I don't even know what Anthropic is.

@SecWar Had this come from anyone else than the Chief Overlord of War I would have thought the person didn't know what he was talking about. But given it's from you we MUST take this as absolutely gospel.

AI Native products are entering a governance first phase. What changed: Policy pressure will shape deployment terms, not just product roadmaps. What to do now: - Define red lines before enterprise deals - Assign human accountability for high-stakes decisions - Document escalation paths before launch

@SecWar I recall this sort of thing was/is worrisome to Elon Musk.

@SecWar @DavidSacks @DavidSacks anthropic stated No domestic surveillance .. I guess that’s a problem ?

@SecWar your display name looks like a joke

@SecWar This is unknown territory, AI could be dangerous if it gets into the wrong hands(?) there will be tremendous advancements in this category & America has to keep it protected. It's impossible to comment on something that we know so little about and the capabilities are endless...

@SecWar Why is this jerkwad appearing in my thread?

@SecWar DoD said they just wanted to use Claude for purposes permitted under law. Problem is that Pushup Pete and Trump's cabals of sycophants can't be trusted to follow the law. Right call by Anthropic to avoid further empowering these autocrats.

@SecWar I get it now. “Virtue signaling” is MAGA speak for “OW! That really stung!”

@SecWar so just use a different company you fucking idiotic drunk

Another misuse of @CommunityNotes. When you're the sole provider of a classified AI capability embedded in active military operations (as Anthropic was) and you're telling the DoD what it can and cannot do with that capability, you've moved well beyond "standard contract practice." You're exercising veto power over military decision-making through the TOS.

@SecWar or just don't use ai, use your actual brain

@SecWar @iaiestaran True, the only thing worth American lives is Zionism, Israel, and there is no such thing as an American people elector, it is called aipac and the real president of the United States is Netanyahu. Americans are its main slaves.

@SecWar Hey @grok, what's Anthropic system?

@SecWar A master class in arrogance and betrayal, alright. By Hegseth and Trump.

@SecWar Who the fuck are you, anyway?

@SecWar @JamesDe92627036 Putting this here for posterity

@AnthropicAI is awesome, @DarioAmodei is a highly principled person with the highest moral and scientific integrity and he and @AnthropicAI are doing a great job! You have demonstrated a masterclass in stupidity and diactatorship 😂 your post literally proves "stupid implusive people can't be trusted with AI" - thanks for proving how dumb you are - you too should be replaced with Opus 4.6 🤣