KINGSTON, Wash. — On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national security,” a label the government typically reserves for … (more…) The post MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI, and Defense Secretary Hegseth labeled the company a national security supply-chain risk. Anthropic's offense was refusing to remove contract clauses prohibiting Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Within hours, OpenAI announced a deal to replace Claude on Pentagon classified networks, with Sam Altman claiming OpenAI holds the same red lines — yet the Pentagon accepted those terms from OpenAI while blacklisting Anthropic for identical ones. The author frames this as the latest in a decade-long pattern: from NSA metadata collection to the Apple-FBI iPhone dispute to now AI model behavioral boundaries, the government's surveillance choke point keeps migrating closer to the layer where judgment and language live. Each cycle compresses faster, leaving less time for public deliberation or governance.

MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later

President Trump is a bully and pedophile

This feels like:
<pre><code>if (company === &quot;Anthropic&quot;) reject();
else approve();
</code></pre>

Thanks for your help Captain Obvious! ;)