Comment by galleywest200
1 day ago
The government declaring a domestic company as a supply chain threat is a tad more than “refusing to do business” don’t you think?
1 day ago
The government declaring a domestic company as a supply chain threat is a tad more than “refusing to do business” don’t you think?
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It stop any one with government contracts from using anthropic. Not just bidding on government contracts.
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No domestic company has ever before been declared a supply chain risk. If this is the normal way of excluding a supplier from a bidding, are you saying the DoD has never before excluded a domestic supplier from a bidding?
That’s because no company who has ever sold weapons to the government has ever been brazen enough to tell the government how they can and cannot use their purchase. It’s unprecedented because most companies that sell to the government are publicly traded and have a board that would never let this happen. It’s unprecedented because Anthropic is behaving like a reckless startup.
That’s what they will argue, anyway.
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That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development. No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path.
> (b) Prohibition. (1) Unless an applicable waiver has been issued by the issuing official, Contractors shall not provide or use as part of the performance of the contract any covered article, or any products or services produced or provided by a source, if the covered article or the source is prohibited by an applicable FASCSA orders as follows:
https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-30
> That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development.
"Misinformation" does not mean "facts I don't like".
> No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path.
Yes. That is what the rule means. Or at least "the department of war". It's not clear to me that this applies to the whole government.
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So tell us all the other similar times this has been done. Why are you so invested in some drunk and a his mob family being right?