Anthropic Just Told the Pentagon to Go to Hell. It May Cost Them Everything.
The deadline was 5:01 p.m. on a Friday. Very Pentagon. There’s something almost theatrical about it — a specific, oddly precise cutoff time handed to a tech CEO by the most powerful defense apparatus in human history. Comply, or face consequences. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, read the ultimatum. He thought about it….
