Zero Hedge
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 – 11:30 AM
Things over at Anthropic are getting wild.
On Friday, the Trump administration ‘fired’ the woke serial copyright infringer, industry disruptor and software-engineer-extinctor after a bruising dispute with the Pentagon came to a head over ethical concerns surrounding Claude’s military use – specifically, domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon demanded to use ClaudeAI for “any lawful purpose” with no guardrails – or having to ask permission from a bunch of blue-haired Karens in a life-or-death scenario. The chatbot’s supposedly idealistic leader (whose sister and Anthropic co-founder, Daniella Amodei, is married to Holden Karnofsky, the founder of Effective Altruism himself) had to signal virtuemaxx to his employees, and said no. OpenAi’s Sam Altman, who is a different kinds of opportunistic sociopath with zero moral qualms, pretended to side with Amodei at first only to immediately swoop in and poach Anthropic’s Pentagon contract. Meanwhile, Amodei’s investors, who had just dumped all their cocaine cash for the next 20 years into his company at a $380 billion valuation, and realized they would never see their money again if the government blacklisted and banned the company from all government supply chains, were terribly vexxed.
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