Hope Bezos does an interview soon where he explains, again, why he thought his foreign bureaus were expendable.
06.03.2026 17:14
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Hope Bezos does an interview soon where he explains, again, why he thought his foreign bureaus were expendable.
Love your faith in us!
I get it! I wanted to point to that magazine piece because I think a lot of people missed it when it published in Dec, and he is such a smart commentator on this stuff.
We’ve written dozens of articles on drones in Ukraine/Gaza/etc. I highly recommend the magazine story by CJ Chivers on this.
Drones are changing the way nation states fight wars. Our story on how Iran’s arsenal of lightweight drones is punching through missile defense shields: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
My version of this yesterday was:
“Anthropic Iran story should be exist.
I’ll write words on drones.”
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
"In the end, the talks between Anthropic and the Department of Defense were undone by weeks of building frustration between men who had differing philosophies about A.I. and who did not like one another."
We profiled Palmer Luckey, who is at the forefront of new defense tech companies selling autonomous weapons to the U.S. military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"
This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11
The deal between the Pentagon and Anthropic didn’t just fall apart because of disagreement over the mass surveillance of Americans. In the background, there were also warring personality differences between men who have know each other for years in Silicon Valley.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
We have some new details on this in our story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
First street art of hometown hero Alysa Liu already going up in Oakland!
We ate outdoors last night too! We belong to a pool club situation in the Oakland Hills.
“Mama, Requested at Pool, is Nowhere to be Found”
When you are working all weekend and your kids want your attention so you open your laptop screen to find this:
When you call the DOD and they point you to this as their timeline🙃
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...
I stopped working for an hour to have dinner with my kids, and Open AI announces they have reached a deal with Pentagon under… the same terms Anthropic was requesting?
If anyone can explain what is going on, my DMs are open ;)
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Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
A US-based company has never been declared a supply chain risk. The decision by the Pentagon to use this tactic against Anthropic will almost certainly end up in court: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
I have not been able to put my cell phone down for hours.
It is SO NUTS. There were so many off-ramps to declare and yet…
Should read: “every time I blink.” Yikes.
I haven’t had time to post because everything I blink there is a news development in the Anthropic V. Pentagon story. Today, the Defense Department took the unprecedented step of declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk for not capitulating to their demands:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
Always a pleasure to talk to Lizzie! Here is my big thoughts on the Anthropic/DOD fight: it’s really a fight about the future of warfare.
Morning! @sheeraf.bsky.social and I break down the Anthropic/Pentagon fight. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
NEW: citing our reporting, a group of lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies on how many administrative subpoenas they have received from the Homeland Security Department.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...