Matt Freeman
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I think, you know, ending the contract, but mainly calling them a supply chain risk, because then that would be the new king of the company option.
So, I mean, we can go back to the blow-by-blow, but I think it's worth it to say, like, this is the thing worth getting freaked out about, right?
That this administration has used this incredibly authoritarian, I mean, basically extrajudicial tool that they happen to have.
to lash out at a company that's not doing their bidding.
Domestic company too.
So currently what I've seen is there's a active debate over like, what is the supply chain risk classification actually?
Because one take that I've seen, which is the most, I think the one that's the most sober minded and I put credence in is like, all it really means is for specific DOD contracts, for work on specific DOD contracts, you cannot use that technology.
And, and so that really says nothing about like, can Google have
Claude hosted on their servers.
It says absolutely nothing about that.
And I think that's really the only sane way to interpret it.
But it seems like the DoD is pushing for the maximalist interpretation, which is closer to what you said, where it's like, no, you can't do any business with these people, which would be incredibly destructive to the extent that when the markets open on Monday, if they haven't given some flag that they're going to reverse this, the markets are going to tank.
And Trump is going to see that.
And Trump hates that.
So, so just to mention this, like Trump tried to intervene.