Defense contracting makes you rich and lazy. In the long run it is rare to see companies get sucked into defense contracting and stay relevant/on the cutting edge. We look at fighters and warships and think WOW! But the reality is that they are pretty far behind where they would actually be if there was a civilian purpose to them that mattered.
This is why when ceos get summoned to testify they are always neutered and hat-in-hand humble. It’s trivial for the us gov to destroy any business unless you reach too big to fail status. Anthropic nor OpenAI is too big too fail yet.
Unfortunately their models suck, though. The difference between the best Grok model and Opus 4.6 is night and day, and not only for coding, but entirely across-the-board.
There was already a Democrat that beat Trump once. And looking at the past elections, it looks like the US elections are currently in a pendulum where the balance of power just swings back and forth.
Yes but you are not suggesting Biden runs again? I meant now, who looks like they could beat the Trump machine, possibly Gavin Newsom but not popular outside of Cali.
Surely you can appreciate that Biden was an abnormally weak candidate (how many times did he try to win on his own merits, only to just squeak in on a tide of anti-Trump voters?). Pretty much anyone will be able to beat the GOP candidate at the next election. And it will likely be the biggest landslide since Reagan. Only MAGA thinks they are popular right now, but back in the real world they are deeply, deeply unpopular. And you know they are going to double down and make it even worse over the next couple years.
I don’t know what will happen, but it still could work out to benefit Anthropic. I believe the public sentiment is OVERWHELMINGLY with Anthropic on this one. Both their stance and standing up to Trump bullies.
