Anthropic Sues the Pentagon: Wah Wah Wah, We Want Your Blood Money Too

Oh for fuck’s sake. Look who decided to throw a tantrum because the grown-ups at the Department of Defense finally noticed they’re sleeping with the enemy. Anthropic—the precious little AI startup that thinks its shit doesn’t stink because it has “safety” in its mission statement—is suing the DoD because they got slapped with a supply-chain-risk designation. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Apparently, these clowns got caught with their pants down using foreign hardware or taking questionable investments, and now Uncle Sam won’t let them near the defense contracts buffet. Welcome to the real world, you sanctimonious bastards. You think you can take Chinese money or run your precious Claude on sketchy silicon and still get access to classified military projects? Get the fuck out of here.

The designation basically means the Pentagon thinks Anthropic is about as secure as a screen door on a submarine, so they’re barred from sensitive work. Now Anthropic is crying into their sustainable oat milk lattes, claiming it’s all a big misunderstanding and they’re actually the good guys. Sure, and I’m the fucking Tooth Fairy.

This is the same company that lectures everyone else about AI safety while apparently building their house on sand. They want that sweet, sweet government cheese—your tax dollars—but don’t want to play by the rules that keep foreign spies out of the supply chain. Typical tech bro entitlement: “Rules are for other people, not for us disruptors.”

So now they’re taking the DoD to court because apparently being told “no” by the military industrial complex is too much for their fragile ego. Cry me a river, you absolute weapons. Maybe next time don’t build your infrastructure on hardware you bought from a guy in a trench coat behind a dumpster.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-sues-department-of-defense-over-supply-chain-risk-designation/

Reminds me of the time some luser tried to plug a USB drive they bought at a gas station into the mainframe. I caught them red-handed and explained—using the heel of my boot—that if they wanted to exfiltrate data to every intelligence agency on the planet, they should at least have the decency to use a reputable brand of malware-vector. They cried about “productivity” and “deadlines.” I cried about “security” and “unemployment.” Guess who won? Pro tip: it wasn’t the meatbag with the discount electronics.

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