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OpenAI Took the Pentagon's Money and Called It Ethics

Sam Altman publicly claimed he shared Anthropic's ethical red lines on autonomous weapons and surveillance. He said it the morning OpenAI signed a Pentagon contract with no such limits. Those two things cannot both be true.

By Milo Hart · 3 min read

Tech & AI

OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Has Better Engineering Than Its Critics Admit

OpenAI's Pentagon deal relies on cloud-only deployment and an unoverridable safety stack, not just contract language. Those are real engineering constraints. Walking away from the table, as Anthropic did, just hands classified AI work to vendors who won't even ask about guardrails.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

The Pentagon Wants Your Code, Not Your Ethics Policy

Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk and barred DOD contractors from working with it. No legislation required, no seizure necessary. The government learned that you don't have to own a company to kill it.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read