{
date: "2026-02-28T02:56:35.000Z",
title:
"OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in classified network",
source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175",
sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X",
},
{
date: "2026-02-28T01:24:31.000Z",
title:
"Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth",
source: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war",
sourceLabel: "Anthropic",
},
{
date: "2026-02-27T22:14:43.000Z",
title: "Dept. of War: Anthropic is a supply chain risk",
source: "https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070?s=20",
sourceLabel: "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on X",
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{
date: "2026-02-27T21:47:00.000Z",
title: "U.S. government blacklists Anthropic",
source:
"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-anthropic-ai-federal-agencies",
sourceLabel: "The Guardian",
},
{
date: "2026-02-27T14:12:04.000Z",
title: "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation",
source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027386252555919386",
sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X",
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If this came across as doing so, I apologize. It was intended more as “there’s a much simpler way.”
Here’s an analogy: I have a kitchen drawer that has had its face torn off, because the threads for the screws were destroyed. I tried fixing it twice by drilling them out, gluing a hardwood dowel in, and then redrilling for screw threads.
After the second failure, I asked my FIL - who is a woodworker - if I should bore them out to a larger size, so I could use a larger dowel with more surface area for glue, etc. He said, “you could, but the failure point is the threads, because you’re driving parallel into end grain. A hardwood plug inserted such that you’re driving into edge grain would hold. Or, you could just move the screws, and optionally plug the old holes for aesthetics.”
I was vastly over-complicating something that had an extremely easy solution. This problem exists everywhere in tech; people will recreate existing technology (usually in a worse fashion), or create Byzantine pipelines for a problem trivially solved by a bash script, etc.
If you consider the available options for something, and then decide, that’s one thing. If you make what is objectively the wrong choice, that still might be understandable - maybe you want to learn something new, maybe it doesn’t matter at your scale (which tbf is true here, though Vercel’s pricing might cause pain if the site exploded in popularity), etc. But the point is, you should understand trade-offs, and what already exists.
This is such a weird hill to die on. I'm pretty sure none of the cabinet positions are described by the constitution, so I'm not sure citing it here has any relevance at all?
The constitution assigns legislative power to the Congress, and does not allow the President to rewrite law by fiat.
The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947 and is still the law of the land until they pass legislation amending it.
The Trump Administration could request the Republican controlled Congress rename the DoD in the NDA, but for whatever reason they have not done so.
So it's correct to say that accepting the idea that a President can rewrite a law based on their own personal whims without Congress is in opposition to fundamental constitutional separation of powers.
Still seems like a really weird hill to die on. It's just branding, as far as I can tell?
And the President of this country has frequently rewritten laws based on their own personal whims, for a very long time now. Trump's actions in this vein might be the most blatant in this regard, but Executive power has been allowed to grow relatively unchecked for a number of decades already, largely because Congress has been unwilling or unable to do anything about it.
Which is why I think opposing this particular abuse of Executive power (if it really is such a thing) is a really weird hill to die on.
Kind of odd it doesn't lead with the Anthropic statement predicting they were about be designated a risk because they'd refused to move past their red lines.
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If you'd like to add or update events, please feel free to submit a pull request. https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline
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