Andy Halliday

And as a result of the sort of the dissolving of that relationship, which was deeply ingrained, right?

Anthropics Claude models were the only models that were built into and authorized for application into the Defense Department.

It was used in Venezuela.

It's been used in the Iran war.

And then because of their anger management issues at the Hegseth level,

they declared that Anthropic was a national security risk.

And then they moved forward with instructions to anybody in any company doing anything with the Department of Defense that they could not use Anthropic's tools.

And that is punishment.

That's not sensible policy.

And as a result of that, Anthropic took the Department of Defense and the US government to court.

And the first word out of the court that's hearing that process is that this looks to be retaliation, and retaliation is unlawful.

That's not something that the US government is allowed to do, to retaliate against a company that's a US company just because they don't like the way the company behaved in their negotiations.

I got a few- Okay, let me talk about an event that took place in Seattle hosted by a company called GeekWire.

And it's their Agents of Transformation Summit in Seattle.

And the reason it's important is that a group of second level leaders from Microsoft and OpenAI and others

made keynote addresses at this conference.

And so I think it's important to note what the theme of it is.

And the confab is called Agents of Transformation.

This fits into a theme that we've been talking about, that there's

agents happening now.