[ruszki]

> This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon.

The article yes, but we cannot be sure about its topic. We definitely cannot claim that they are unrelated. We don't know. It's possible that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's also possible that they wanted to prevent worse requests and this was a preventive measure.

[tbrownaw]

This is something they've been working on "in recent months". The Pentagon thing was today.

This cannot have been caused by that, unless they've also invented time travel.

[ActorNightly]

You heard about the Pentagon thing today. Doesn't mean it wasn't started because of political pressure.

[brookst]

9 days ago: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-c...

And I suspect that was not the first time the topic was discussed.

[lm28469]

> The Pentagon thing was today.

Right because we are 100% aware of everything the pentagon does minute by minute...

[mannykannot]

It might have been contingency planning: you don't need a weatherman...

[dmix]

Pentagon issue was reported before today. It only made headlines again from Hegseth’s comments.

[benatkin]

I think we can confidently claim that it is related. I wonder if I'm alone in thinking this.