alt Hacker News"Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."
This is authoritarian behavior. You're having trouble negotiating a contract, so instead of just canceling it - you basically ban all of F500 from doing business with that firm.
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The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.
Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.
Americans remain blissfully unaware.
I think it’s sovereign behavior and what’s the point of being sovereign if you don’t exercise the power of the sovereign?
I guess I would support the democratically elected sovereign over the private corporation.
Anthropic dictating what our military can and can't do is also authoritarian behavior. The military is responsible to the US people, where Anthropic isn't. Giving power to a company instead of the people is wrong.
This certainly isn't going to attract foreign investment. Business isn't big on governments that capriciously threaten to seize control of or financially harm them.