(The Independent)

Trump orders all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology

At the heart of the defense contract disagreement is a fundamental clash over AI’s role in national security and profound concerns about how increasingly capable machines could be deployed in high-stakes scenarios involving lethal force, sensitive information, or government surveillance.

Anthropic, the creator of the chatbot Claude, is in a financial position to potentially absorb the loss of the contract. However, the ultimatum issued this week by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented broader risks at the peak of the company's meteoric ascent from a relatively unknown computer science research lab in San Francisco to one of the world’s most valuable startups.

Military officials had warned that if Amodei did not compromise, they would not only cancel Anthropic's contract but also "deem them a supply chain risk."

This designation is typically applied to foreign adversaries and could severely jeopardise the company's critical partnerships with other businesses. Conversely, if Amodei were to yield, he risked eroding trust within the burgeoning AI industry, particularly among top talent drawn to the company by its pledges to responsibly build advanced AI that, without proper safeguards, could pose catastrophic dangers.


So..... AI - just like human 'intelligence'  - is deeply divided along ideological lines; who'd have thunk it..."catastrophic dangers" are in the eye of the (self-interested) beholder.


........


Meanwhile, problems emerging at the banks:

(Daily Mail)

The Penthouse Syndicate is accused of building a Sydney property empire worth tens of millions of dollars using corrupt solicitors, real estate agents and mortgage brokers.

In response, CBA began scrutinising its own lending practices, and uncovered about $1 billion worth of home loans that were allegedly approved using fraudulent documents.

Some of those documents are suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence


Ouch...showing that - like the 'invisible hand' free market, AI will prove to be "a good servant but a bad master" (Amory Levins).

lee wrote on Feb 28^th, 2026 at 1:37pm:

I speculate everything will only get more complicated before better.

AI is now learning at a rate that words cannot describe.

It’s  going to replace doctors, Professors,Barristers and lawyers as well as all highly trained, skilled, professional, experienced people.

And it’s going to be do these  tasks incredibly better and massively cheaper.

Your solicitor wants $460 a hour?

AI will draft not just a similar letter but a superior one either for free or less than $18.
K
We saw the Industrial Revolution now we are living the AI revolution.

And  AI isn’t coming for the blue collar jobs nor white collar.

It’s going to replace all of our professional jobs our professional (and quietly do a better job) when they suddenly realise they are the targeted and suddenly replaced will be huge.

They will l beg and complain about how important they are to society and that they shouldn’t be replaced by a cheaper alternative with superior skills like AI.

Egos and bank balances as well as living standards will crash amongst the professionals.

And the trickle down effect in  Australia society will not be noticed or cared about.

Robotics waitress was just R&D

Why replace a job of someone earning  $28 a hour when  you can replace a  professional on $460 a hour?

Oh so quickly the mighty will fall over the next two decades?

AI isn’t here to take away construction nor hospitality jobs.

It is here to take over highly skilled workers jobs.

Why replace a labourer with AI and save maybe $10 a hour when you can replace a medical specialist and undercut them by nearly a $1000 dollars a hour?

AI is  many things but it’s not stupid and was created to create $$$$

lee wrote on Feb 28^th, 2026 at 1:37pm:


Your error: explaining terms like aggregate demand and aggregate supply within the topic of the macro-economy, is not subject to ideological dispute. 

Meanwhile Alan Kohler has joined those economists calling for higher taxes on capital and inheritance, along with removal of CGT discounts for investors.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1645944963/1440#1440

#1440.

Obviously you WILL dispute Alan's progressive leanings, given your  'survival of the fittest' Conservative ideology.

(survival of the fittest)... the ideological interpretation—coined primarily by Herbert Spencer—suggests that society progresses through ruthless competition, where the strong (wealthy, powerful, or "superior") succeed and the weak (poor or "inferior") perish.

"Let them eat cake"....

Jasin wrote on Feb 28^th, 2026 at 4:00pm:


No, but it might be able to show us the way to creating a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous human civilization on planet earth.

Jasin wrote on Feb 28^th, 2026 at 4:00pm:


That’s an interesting idea!



I can’t imagine it so it will probably come to be true.

Imagine AI creating human babies and then rising them and teaching them!

( just quietly, might be able to do a better job than the majority of humans nowadays do) and not need the Centrelink payments ?

lee wrote on Feb 28^th, 2026 at 4:51pm:


Obviously I don't have time to consult every AI model, but since we are referring to a fact, not an opinion (ie meaning of 'aggregate demand', which you are obviously too lazy to research yourself), then I guarantee every model will give the same definition, because a fact is a fact. 

Dare you to show different  definitions of "aggregate demand"....

Quote:


Your low IQ confirmed above.

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 4:42pm:


So a belief system for you. It must be like macro-economics for you. AI would tell you MMT is the correct path.

BTW - Your guarantees don't hold significance.

BUT - I will research it - Just as soon as you specify what your question to AI is. You see I would need to ask exactly the same question of each. We wouldn't want to bias the output would we?

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 6:03pm:


Except when you use those definitions to suit unsubstantiated drivel.

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 6:03pm:


Wow. possibly no validity?
So nothing to do with your unique tax deductions.

Why don't you want to tell us that question?

BTW - nothing to do with what AI knows. It is still just regurgitating others work. EG khan academy.