Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

dstala 54 points 68 comments June 15, 2026

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mustardo

Mighty fine AI you have there, be a shame if something were to happen to it...

gregoriol

They should fly staff to EU instead

comrade1234

After seeing headlines about the ufc fight on the White House lawn and seeing headlines about how Japanese World Cup fans clean up trash after the match I had an image of programmers doing lawn care at the White House...

Surac

I hope they are good at cage fighting. Thats what Trump is all about

ed_mercer

https://archive.md/KJK8v

OkWing99

Wouldn't it be funny if US Gov takes a 10% stake in Anthropic.

letmetweakit

Nothing a few million dollars here and there can't fix ...

santiagobasulto

> Senior technical Anthropic staff doesn't seem to be a political meeting, but rather a technical one. Maybe they'll review the jailbreaks and demonstrate that can be replicated in any model out there?

MrBuddyCasino

Anthropic: "Our new models are so mighty and dangerous, we'll limit access." US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then" This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal. ( btw heres what most likely happened, they refused to fix a jailbreak: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171 )

bushido

Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time. I was expecting/hoping it'd be years away. However given the events in the last few days it greatly increases my concern with building any product which can depend on an on an API which could go away for a number of my customers. I've been experimenting with other open weight models hosted in favorable sovereign countries for a few months, but this accelerates something which was an experiment to now being a must-have. I don't think it is going to be easy for any of the parties to repair this easily.

ryandvm

None of this would have happened if Anthropic had just bought a few million dollars worth of Trumpcoin :melting_face:

Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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