Anthropic behauptet, die Pentagon-Fehde könnte Milliarden kosten

From the article:

>current customers and prospective ones have been demanding new terms and even backing out of negotiations since the US Department of Defense labeled the AI startup [a supply-chain risk](https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-shockwaves-silicon-valley/) late last month, according to court papers that also revealed new financial details about the company.

>Hundreds of millions of dollars in expected revenue this year from work tied to the Pentagon is already at risk for Anthropic, the company’s chief financial officer, Krishna Rao, wrote in [a court filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.6.5.pdf) on Monday. But if the government has its way and pressures a broad range of companies from doing business with the AI startup, regardless of any ties to the military, Anthropic could ultimately lose billions of dollars in sales, he stated. Its all-time sales, since commercializing its technology in 2023, exceed $5 billion, according to Rao.

>Anthropic’s revenue exploded as its [Claude models](https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-benevolent-artificial-intelligence/) began outperforming rivals and showing advanced capabilities in areas such as [generating software code](https://www.wired.com/story/claude-code-success-anthropic-business-model/). But the company spends heavily on computing infrastructure and remains deeply unprofitable. Rao specified that Anthropic has spent over $10 billion to train and deploy its models.

>Anthropic chief commercial officer Paul Smith provided several examples of partners who have privately raised concerns to the AI startup in recent days. He said a financial services customer paused negotiations over a $15 million deal because of the supply-chain label, and two leading financial services companies have refused to close deals valued together at $80 million unless they gain the right to unilaterally cancel their contracts for any reason. A grocery store chain canceled a sales meeting, citing the supply-chain-risk designation, [Smith added](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.6.4.pdf).

>“All have taken steps that reflect deep distrust and a growing fear of associating with Anthropic,” Smith wrote.

Good, go away.

It’s going to turn out that the school they hit in Minab was an AI chosen target, maybe even Anthropic since they were apparently still using them, and they’ll have a real smug „this is why we didn’t want you to do that with our AI“ moment.

Can’t believe I’m rooting for an AI company, but I do not support government persecution against companies that defend American rights.

Ultimately, it’s going to take lawsuits against the Trump Administration and the publics willingness to purchase subscriptions to get Anthropic through all of this. Out of all the current AI companies, I hope Anthropic comes out on top. Google being a close second would be perfect.

Anthropic is probably the best out of a bad bunch – at least they didn’t want their technology used for mass surveillance and autonomous warfare.

I think that is the very least we should be asking of these companies.

It ‚could also make it billions‘ with consumers wanting to make an ethical and moral choice.

OpenAI has been forcefully acquired by ‚Grifter in Chief‘ and we all know *that is going to end badly!*

Yeah, that’s nothing what Open AI is going to lose.

I get that they’re „fighting the good fight“ but part of me also thinks that they’re really just holding out for more money. Another part of me thinks can they really hope to hold the government responsible for how their tools are used? Like the person that developed gun powder can they be held accountable for the fact that someone used it to fire a lethal projectile?

In reality we need to pass some ironclad laws that regulates how AI can be used by both the public and the government. But that’s never going to happen with Republicans in charge. You think it was a coincidence that Trump surrounded himself with tech bros? No, they funded him because they still want the AI field to be the wild west where they can pump as much money in and take as much money out without consequences for as long as possible.

Pretty simple really. Give the Pentagon what they want and get paid incredibly well or don’t provide what they want and walk away. The choice is theirs to make. No point in pointing fingers.

Pentagon is run my bunch of pedo idiots.