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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
Sam Altman clarified the terms of a classified military AI deal via a post on X. No congressional hearing, no public contract, no independent auditor. This is not a governance process; it's a company deciding its own homework deserves an A.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro are, for the right user, genuinely worth $20 a month. That answer takes about three paragraphs to give. What takes longer is explaining the system you're buying into when you hand over your credit card: training data pipelines, a deliberate pricing strategy, and a two-tiered AI economy that nobody voted for.
By Audrey Liang · 4 min read