Claude: Autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance are our red line

Pentagon: No

OpenAI: We are okay if the line is merely a suggestion and we encourage you not to cross it!

Pentagon: Yes we pick that option

I assume it's anthropic rejecting the US Government's use of their software for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, and openai happily agreeing to it.

That has led to a significant number of people switching over from openai, or at least stating they were going to do so.

They made a $25 million donation to Trump, which was repaid in kind by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk. Unfortunately, they weren’t nearly subtle enough about this, and went “sure, we’ll take over the contract with no limits on killbots or domestic surveillance, no problem!” on the same day as Anthropic got in trouble, and people put two and two together.