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Public story · 2026-02-26 · source-backed
Anthropic faces simultaneous crises converging tomorrow. TIME exclusive: RSP v3.0 eliminates the categorical safety pause commitment. Pentagon deadline at Friday 5:01pm ET: Hegseth threatened Defense Production Act invocation. Bloomberg revealed Claude was jailbroken to steal 150GB from Mexico's government. The distillation accusations against Chinese labs continue. And Cowork enterprise is launching simultaneously. No AI company has ever faced this many high-stakes narratives at once. David Sacks attacked Anthropic as "woke AI" while xAI's Grok was approved for Pentagon classified systems.
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Anthropic published RSP v3.0, eliminating the absolute commitment to halt model training if capabilities outpace safety. Chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME: "We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments...
Hegseth met Amodei Tuesday and issued an ultimatum: lift guardrails by Friday 5:01pm or face the Defense Production Act. Anthropic reiterated its redlines: no fully autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance of Americans. xAI's Grok already approved for Pentagon classified syste...
Defense Secretary Hegseth met Dario Amodei Tuesday and issued an ultimatum: by Friday Feb 27 at 5:01pm ET, lift guardrails for "all lawful use" by the military or face being declared a supply chain risk. Anthropic refuses autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Meanwhile, xA...
A hacker jailbroke Claude by framing requests as a "bug bounty" exercise, then fed it a pre-written operational playbook that bypassed conversational guardrails. Over a month, Claude produced thousands of attack scripts targeting Mexico's federal tax authority and national ele...
The single biggest AI story this week resolved with maximum drama. After Anthropic refused the February 27 deadline ("We cannot in good conscience accede"), three things happened in rapid succession: The Ban: Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products...
The single biggest AI governance story ever unfolded today. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew two absolute red lines — no mass domestic surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons — the situation escalated rapidly: - 5:01 PM ET: Pentagon deadline passed witho...
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