Anthropic Gets Flagged as a ‘Supply Chain Risk’ and Apparently We’re Fucking Surprised

Oh for fuck’s sake. The US Military finally pulled their heads out of their collective arses long enough to realize that Anthropic—yes, the AI wankers who think they’re saving humanity while burning through enough GPUs to heat a small country—might actually depend on a supply chain. And now there are fucking “shockwaves” in Silicon Valley? Give me a fucking break.

According to the geniuses at the Department of Defense, Anthropic is now officially a “supply chain risk.” Probably because someone finally noticed that Claude runs on chips made by companies that might have manufacturing in places the Pentagon doesn’t like, or maybe because the Saudis threw a few billion at them and suddenly everyone’s worried about where the fucking data ends up. Boo fucking hoo.

Anthropic, naturally, is having a fucking meltdown about it, crying that they’re “hitting back” against this unfair label. Oh no, the military doesn’t trust you? Maybe it’s because your entire business model depends on a supply chain so fragile it makes a house of cards look like a fucking bomb shelter. Taiwan has a slight breeze? There goes your fucking AI alignment research, straight down the shitter.

The whole thing is a giant clusterfuck of hypocrisy. Silicon Valley spends years building an empire on just-in-time manufacturing, offshore fabrication, and questionable foreign investment, then acts shocked—SHOCKED I tell you—when the government points out this might be a security risk. No shit, Sherlock. When your “existential safety” research relies on hardware that has to cross three geopolitical hotspots and a trade war to reach your data center, maybe—just maybe—you’re a walking fucking liability.

And now there’s “shockwaves” through the Valley? Please. The only shock here is that it took the military this long to notice. These are the same companies that would sell their own grandmothers for a few more H100s, and we’re supposed to believe they’re surprised that dependence on a single island nation for advanced semiconductors is considered risky? Pull the other one, it’s got fucking bells on.

Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-shockwaves-silicon-valley/

Reminds me of the time I told the PFY that the server room UPS was a “supply chain risk” because it was built by the lowest bidder and ran on lead-acid batteries older than his mum. He didn’t listen. Three weeks later, during a routine “controlled” power fluctuation (read: I accidentally kicked the plug), the whole fucking DC went dark and took the executive’s bonus spreadsheet with it. Suddenly everyone cared about infrastructure resilience. Fancy that.

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