> Anthropic's position was categorical: no mass surveillance, full stop.

It was "[No] mass domestic surveillance of Americans"

It's far more narrow a restriction than you seem to imply. For example, mass domestic surveillance of non-Americans seems okay.

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Exactly the sort of behaviour we now expect from Altman, and perhaps the behaviour that caused him to be temporarily ousted those decades before.

No mass surveillance of Americans it is.