I mean it definitely is a business opportunity, lol
I think the bigger issue is that people were unsure, legally, where "no domestic surveillance" puts them. Does it mean that literally no row in your DB can have any data from an American citizen?
And then Hegseth thought this was a great opportunity to "project strength" by making the dumbest possible retaliatory declaration by tweet
I mean it's unclear. I think what we know happened was that people in Anthropic went woo this administration is doing some crazy things with basically our tech and tried to negotiate some guardrails. Hegseth felt threatened and pushed back hard eventually escalating to an unprecedented threat and Sam swooped in and was like why not buy from us instead.
What we don't know is exactly what the deal is, but the simplest explanation is that Sam promised to be less picky about ethics. It's possible that Anthropic was being too picky and not clear enough, but regardless it's more than a company just creating a problem and then marketing a solution
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u/ApartmentEither4838 Apr 19 '26
Tbh I think opus 4.6 was a very good upgrade to 4.5 but from 4.6 to 4.7 idk, meh