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Trump Plots Petty Revenge on Anthropic CEO

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15 pointspetethomas9 comments

Let’s hope democracy and the companies we like survive this most petty and broken man serving as POTUS.

They will. Just keep grinding, this will be over eventually.

I don't see how. He himself will eventually go away, but his supporters are a renewable resource. They will seek somebody similar. And somebody will create themselves to be similar, because that's the model that works.

I’m trying to focus on other things and waiting for this to all be over.

I’m not so sure this regime ends without a civil war or something given how determined they are to end our elections and usher in their own version of Putins Russia.

> the companies we like survive

I encourage you to reflect on what this actually means. The "companies we like" have already shown their true colors. All they can do now is pretend it won't happen again.

There's no reality where you wake up to find Tesla or Apple are their idyllic versions of themselves. Even a complete political upheaval cannot create an environment that prevents crony capitalism; Tesla and Apple need federal support to compete. They will bend over backwards embarrassing themselves to secure it, and in a truly capitalist economy they should be punished for failing to compete naturally.

If you believe in fair competition, no company deserves to die more than the ones reliant on anticompetitive federal support. Kissing ass in an administration this corrupt represents the apex of America's meritocracy issue. I'm hoping the FTC breaks them all up, anything less will set the precedent that federal corruption is rewarding and desirable. If any of them survive, we're all doomed.

Very very fair call out. No company is a saint. Even Dario is okay with allowing Claude to be used to kill people just so long as there’s a human in the loop. It’s a very low bar indeed. But idk he’s standing his ground. More of the CEO class I think should. I’d like to see more spine from them. And if they do I will patronize them more.

Too many firms are too big this is true. Breakups would energize a lot of things and even raise salaries for us workers as these new smaller more nimble companies fight for talent.

I guess I just want things to go back to where they were when we were debating about breaking companies up not talking about existentially bad things like kissing the ring of a faux businessman turned reality tv star turned populist who loves Putin. Who knew it would be the Siberian candidate and not the Manchurian one.

When AI companies start influencing policy and policy starts influencing AI companies, things get messy quickly. Regardless of the politics around Donald Trump or Dario Amodei, it’s a reminder that AI is no longer just a tech story — it’s a geopolitical and regulatory one.

It's almost like they baited him into this. They know what kind of man-child he is, and they know they'll win the lawsuit.

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