We Will Not Be Divided

Re:We Will Not Be Divided by ted_dunning on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:16PM (#47189791)

It means that all companies contracting with the government have to certify that they don't use Anthropic products at all. Not just in the products being offered to the government.

This is a massive body slam. This means that Nvidia, every server vendor, IBM, AWS, Azure, Microsoft and everybody else has to certify that they don't do business directly or indirectly using Anthropic products.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by ipaddr on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:18AM (#47191147)

Microsoft, Azure, AWS, Nvidia and IBM all have deals with other providers for AI. That itself doesn't turn the needle.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by Nevermark on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:45AM (#47191316)

I think the point is that would be catastrophic for Anthropic.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by ekianjo on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:39AM (#47191780)

Who cares about Anthropic? That's the guys who are pushing for regulations to prevent people from using local models. The earlier they are gone the better

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by etchalon on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:55AM (#47191945)

"First they came for Anthropic, and I said nothing because fuck those guys I guess."

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by fauigerzigerk on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:40AM (#47192905)

First they came for Anthropic in spite of the fact that Anthropic tried so hard to make them come for local models first.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by iFreilicht on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:21AM (#47205424)

Are they? I couldn't find any info about this and my past perception has been that Anthropic has a stronger moral codex than other AI companies, so I would be genuinely interested in where you got this information from.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by fdsjgfklsfd on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:28PM (#47291167)

https://www.thestack.technology/backlash-over-anthropic-ai-c...

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by scarmig on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:00AM (#47191442)

Going by what Hegseth said, it bans them from relationships or partnering with Anthropic at all. No renting or selling GPUs to them; no allowing software engineers to use Claude Code; no serving Anthropic models from their clouds. Probably have to give up investments; Amazon alone has invested like $10B in Anthropic.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by direwolf20 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:04AM (#47195523)

It bans them from using all open source software unless they have signed an agreement with the developer to prohibit use of Claude Code.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by kelvinjps10 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:42AM (#47197402)

What open source software ? Anthropic doesn't make open source software?

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by direwolf20 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:22PM (#47197843)

All open source software, because the developers might use Claude Code.

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Re:We Will Not Be Divided by Perz1val on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:57AM (#47193036)

Nvidia can also say no, they won't have choice but yield or not have AI at all

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