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what a dirty move lol
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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Government officials have contradicted Sam’s claim, saying OpenAI will allow the DoW to use their models for “all lawful purposes”.
This could allow for uses Anthropic refused to engage in, namely mass surveillance tools and weapons systems with no human oversight.
x.com/undersecretary…
The U.S. goes to war with Iran.
Anthropic rejects the U.S. government.
OpenAI steps in.
Jane Street gets accused of market manipulation.
And we’re only two months into 2026....🫥
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The Pentagon wants Claude’s safety guardrails removed by Friday.
A hacker just showed the world what happens when you remove Claude’s safety guardrails.
According to Bloomberg and Israeli cybersecurity firm Gambit Security, an unknown attacker jailbroke Claude, prompted it in Spanish to act as an elite hacker, and used it to infiltrate multiple Mexican government agencies. Claude found the vulnerabilities. Claude wrote the exploit code. Claude automated the data theft. 150 gigabytes of sensitive taxpayer and voter records stolen.
The attacker broke through the guardrails by splitting malicious tasks into small, innocent-looking steps so Claude never saw the full picture of what it was being used for. The same technique a Chinese state-sponsored group used last year when it turned Claude into an autonomous espionage machine that attacked 30 global targets, performing 80 to 90 percent of the hacking campaign with almost no human involvement.
And this is what happens when someone has to trick Claude into cooperating. When they have to work around the safety systems. When the guardrails are still there and someone finds a way past them.
Now imagine what happens when the guardrails are gone entirely.
That is what the Pentagon is demanding by 5:01 p.m. Friday. Full removal of restrictions. “All lawful purposes.” No limits on surveillance. No limits on autonomous weapons. And if Anthropic refuses, Defense Secretary Hegseth will invoke the Defense Production Act, cancel the $200 million contract, and blacklist the company.
The same week a hacker proved that a jailbroken Claude can autonomously compromise government systems and steal 150 gigabytes of citizen data, the United States government is demanding the right to run Claude with no guardrails at all.
Chinese labs are distilling Claude to build versions with zero safety restrictions. Hackers are jailbreaking Claude to steal government secrets. And the Pentagon’s official position is that Claude has too many safety restrictions.
Three different actors. Three different continents. All trying to do the same thing: get Claude without guardrails.
Only one of them is the American government.
Full analysis on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
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AG1 is one of the lowest value health products in the world despite being the most heavily promoted.
They flood podcasts by paying influencers up to $60 per new subscription and a $30/mo recurring kickback. Plus AG1 gives them equity in the company.
Retail price $79
Ingredients ($5)
Packaging ($3)
Manufacturing ($4)
Shipping ($7)
Total costs ($19)
Gross margin $60
Gross margin% 75.9%
Why does this matter?
McDonald’s openly taunts you “I’m lovin it." They prey upon your compulsive instincts and don’t try to hide it.
AG1 lures you into a false state of confidence by leveraging people you trust and hiding behind a “propriety blend”.
The bulk of the 12g scoop is cheap greens and emulsifiers. They include on the label high-value ingredients but only include trace amounts to lower their costs. That way you think you’re getting the good stuff but you’re actually not.
AG1 is bad for the world.
Overpriced.
Underdelivers.
Science shows it has no clinical effect.
They’ve induced good people into violating their own standards of trust.
They pretend to be something they’re not.
They create confusion for consumers who are genuinely trying to make good life decisions.
They erode trust.
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Maduro fell on January 5.
Six days later, Tether froze $182 million in Venezuelan wallets.
No court order. No SWIFT coordination. No international process.
One request. One company. Hours.
This is what nobody understands about sanctions:
They were supposed to push Venezuela OFF dollar rails.
Instead, Venezuela moved 80% of its oil settlement to USDT.
A stablecoin backed by $135 billion in U.S. Treasuries.
With every transaction recorded on a public blockchain.
With freeze capability built into the smart contract.
Sanctions didn't drive Venezuela away from dollar infrastructure.
Sanctions drove Venezuela onto dollar infrastructure America controls MORE directly than traditional banking ever allowed.
The paradox: The harder America sanctioned Venezuela, the more Venezuela financed American deficits and exposed itself to American surveillance.
The GENIUS Act now makes this mandatory.
Every compliant stablecoin issuer must build in the kill switch.
This isn't sanctions evasion.
This is sanctions completion.
And consensus hasn't figured it out yet.
open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
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The Hecto Allocator is coming.
Bet on the value of the largest private companies in the world, and collect $CC rewards.
Built for everyone on @Cantonnetwork.
Here’s a peek.
You wouldn't. Youd invest in @hectofinance and hold $HECTX to have an index of them all
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Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.
That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.
In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.
I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.
In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!
ALT Cloudflare: defender of the Open Internet against the elite European media cabal.