alt.hn

3/5/2026 at 1:48:31 AM

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

 https://www.ft.com/content/97bda2ef-fc06-40b3-a867-f61a711b148b

by ajam1507

3/5/2026 at 9:45:21 AM

> Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply chain.

Is the only sentence in that article related to the title and there’s no information to back up the statement? How is this a news article?

The rest of the page rehashes last week.

by digitalPhonix

3/5/2026 at 6:59:25 AM

Hopefully Mistral or open-source can get similar models working. At the moment on the Max subscription with Claude Code, need to get away though.

by mbix77

3/5/2026 at 8:46:32 AM

Honestly, I found Kimi K2.5 to be a suitable replacement. I use it through opencode, with the "Oh My Opencode" plugin, and I'm really starting to think that the harness makes a far bigger difference than the model.

I'd put it as 90% as good as Opus 4.6, I have to direct and correct it a bit more, but it's well worth the price difference.

by lbreakjai

3/5/2026 at 6:35:59 AM

Non issue if they keep their red lines.

by solenoid0937

3/5/2026 at 7:36:00 AM

How is it that noone seems to have a moral backbone anymore.

by mastermage

3/5/2026 at 8:42:41 AM

Lately it seems there are so many poor role models with so much power. It's really disheartening to say the least.

by fercircularbuf

3/5/2026 at 5:11:54 AM

These people care about money. They got the PR from the showboat stance, so, might as well get the money now too :)

Being in tech is not that hard, just be a utter piece of shit.

by general_reveal

3/5/2026 at 5:56:00 AM

Exactly this. Dario is a far bigger snake than Altman. Altman is fairly transparent and his plays are obvious on the surface, but Dario is the type of guy that will shiv you in the spine when you turn the lights off. Anthropic consistently employs blackhat marketing techniques. The amount of times they've released nonsense clickbait media pushes backed by "studies" that don't reinforce what they claim, about their AI being "sentient", is a prime example of that. Ever since they launched they have been reinforcing the narrative that they're the "safe" and "moral" AI company, when it's far from the truth, hence their Palantir partnership. It's a pure marketing gimmick. They care about one thing and one thing only: Power. Money is the means to get there.

by ting0

3/5/2026 at 7:38:32 AM

I don't think this surprised anyone.

by notenlish

3/5/2026 at 3:16:29 AM

It really is the classic "you either die a safety-first AI lab, or you live long enough to see yourself back at the Pentagon negotiating table" arc.

by epicprogrammer

3/5/2026 at 5:54:21 AM

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by karmasimida