Jaden Shafer

Welcome to the podcast.

I'm your host, Jaden Shafer.

Today on the podcast, we're covering some big news out of Anthropic.

There's a couple pretty crazy stories going on right now.

The first, I think, is pretty exciting.

Anthropic has made a big acquisition.

They've acquired Vercept.

It is a computer use AI startup.

And this is right after Meta came and poached one of the founders of that startup.

So there's a lot of drama, but I think a lot of strategic advantage to Anthropic trying to get in and acquire this company.

At the same time, there is some pretty wild news with Anthropic right now.

They're in the middle of a high stakes standoff with the U.S.

government.

The Pentagon basically, it came out that the Pentagon used Claude, kind of like Claude Code basically, but their coding assistant.

or the Claude assistant, when they did the Venezuela, when they captured Maduro, they were using Claude to help them with a lot of the planning.

And I'm not sure if that's exactly what sparked it, but at some point, Anthropic said, look, we don't want the US government or the military specifically using Anthropic for different things.

And so they kind of like banned the military.

And then, of course, the military gets upset.

And so anyways, there's a high stakes standoff going on right now where Anthropic has until Friday evening to either allow the U.S.

military to use its model unrestricted or there's going to be a bunch of consequences.