Regardless of what you think about AI, what Trump did to Anthropic was monumentally wrong.

Pete Hegseth wanted to change a contract he'd already signed which included policies to promote public safety he disliked. Trump declared a citizen-run company to be terrorists.

Thankfully, the ruling has been voided. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/hegseth-trump-had-no-authority-to-order-anthropic-to-be-blacklisted-judge-says/

Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says

“I don’t know”: Department of War fails to justify blacklisting Anthropic.

Ars Technica

@mattsheffield

In case you haven't been paying attention, you're living under an authoritarian regime with functionally martial law.