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The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of War has now moved to the courts, where Anthropic has challenged the official supply chain risk designation as well as the order to remove it from systems across the government, claiming retaliation for protected speech. It will take a bit to work its way through the courts. Anthropic has the principles of law on its side, a maximally strong set of facts and absurdly strong amicus briefs. If Anthropic loses this case, there will be far reaching consequences for our freedoms. Let us hope this remains in the courts and is allowed to play out there, and then ultimately that negotiations can resume and the parties can at least agree on a smooth transition to alternative service providers. If DoW wants an otherwise full deal more than it wants the right to use Claude to monitor Americans and analyze their data, a full deal is possible as well, but if they demand full ‘all lawful use,’ all trust has been lost or they are or always were out to hurt Anthropic, then there is no deal or ZOPA. That has overshadowed what would normally be the main event [...] ---Outline:(01:48) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(03:46) Language Models Dont Offer Mundane Utility(07:11) Language Models Break Your Vital Internet Infrastructure(08:02) Huh, Upgrades(09:29) On Your Marks(15:13) Choose Your Fighter(15:40) Get My Agent On The Line(16:55) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(19:08) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer(19:27) You Drive Me Crazy(19:47) They Took Our Jobs(23:10) Get Involved(24:58) Introducing(26:03) The Anthropic Institute(28:13) In Other AI News(29:14) The Rise of Claude(33:31) Trouble At OpenAI(35:21) Show Me the Money(36:36) Thanks For The Memos(37:36) A Contract Is A Contract Is A Contract(40:09) Level of Friction(41:10) Quiet Speculations(41:46) Quickly, Theres No Time(43:14) Apology Tour(43:59) Well See You In Court(50:41) Jawboning(54:02) Executive Order(54:53) The Acute Crisis Passes(56:48) Others Cover This(57:28) Dwarkesh Patel Gives Mixed Thoughts(01:02:57) This Means A Special Military Operation(01:03:25) Bernie Sanders Is Worried and Curious About AI(01:06:10) The Quest for Survival(01:09:25) The Quest For No Regulations Whatsoever(01:10:44) Chip City(01:11:07) The Week in Audio(01:12:52) Rhetorical Innovation(01:23:08) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:28:57) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone(01:31:03) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone(01:32:52) The Lighter Side --- First published: March 12th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DnrjKZTZwHGjdDB4u/ai-159-see-you-in-court --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.