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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
Anthropic refused to negotiate workable terms with the Pentagon and lost its classified AI contract to OpenAI, which signed under 'any lawful use' with no published restrictions. The company most invested in AI safety just removed itself from the one place where safety constraints matter most.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing advanced cybersecurity AI to hand-picked partners and calling it caution. But a guest list is not a safety framework. Someone with actual authority needs to demand independent risk assessments before the next pilot launches.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
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