[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[John Clark]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 10:42 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Former officials don’t know what is going on in the pentagon any more
> than the NYT does.  Claude may be good, but you can be sure that whatever
> they have now is better.*




*What?! You believe that the Pentagon has access to a smarter AI than
anything the AI companies have?? For that to be true it would mean that for
the last several years hundreds of the very top AI researchers in the
entire world have decided that they would rather be government employees
and work for the military rather than work for Anthropic or OpenAI or
Google and become filthy rich. And I don't believe there is a snowballs
chance in hell of that has occurred, or will ever occur. *

*By the way I'm curious if you agree with He Who Must Not Be Named that
Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" run by "Leftwing nut jobs" because
they don't think an AI conducting mass surveillance on the American people
or an AI controlling a lethal weapon without a human being in the decision
pipeline are good ideas. I suppose you do agree, I suppose you feel that
it's your duty to agree with everything he does and says. I'd love it if
you told me I'm wrong about that. *


* John K Clark*

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