alt Hacker NewsI get the feeling they didn't like Anthropic from the start for whatever reason and just found excuses to dump them and find an alternative provider. There's also the possibility the DoW will still have its way and this is possibly only a statement for the public.
P.S I'm not political (no left/right drama), just speculative.
The question is why was it so urgent to bring this up right now. The answer is that the US Navy has carrier battle groups stationed off the coast of Iran right now.
US F22 fighter jets have been spotted on Israeli airfields by Chinese commercial satellites in the past 3 days.
A full scale strike on Iran is imminent and they want to leverage LLMs for data analysis and quite possibly automated target selection.
Literally the SkyNet scenario both researchers and frickin pop culture have warned about for years.