A lot is going on in the world of tech today. I have to say, of all the boneheaded moves the US government has made in the past couple of weeks, turning away Anthropic, one of the most popular AI companies, because of two very simple asks is not smart. The government's ask is too broad (anything legal; the definition of legal can change), and Anthropic's ask is quite narrow (don't use our AI to kill people unchecked or spy on US citizens domestically). The US already spies on everything we do as citizens indirectly (metadata can be as powerful as the actual data at a sufficient scale). I suspect this is the sticking point for the US government.

Like it or not, the world is in a race to integrate and improve AI across all of society. Telling Anthropic that they can't play in the government space is not going to accelerate anything; quite the opposite. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is using US AI company tooling to speed their delivery of new AI capabilities. Some would argue that China is winning right now, specifically with Qwen (which also had a weird week).

The beef between Anthropic and the US government does nothing to advance the US position in the AI race. Meanwhile, OpenAI has admitted that their moves during all this looked slimy (because they were). During all this, Anthropic Claude app installs are up on the App Store (they're still at #1 as of Friday). Meanwhile, OpenAI ChatGPT uninstalls are up too. Oh, and negotiations between Anthropic and the US government are ongoing so I suspect this will be a non-issue soon. This whole thing looks like a moral win for Anthropic but whether or not that matters in the long run is anyone's guess.

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