Google investing up to $40B in Anthropic

tomhow 23 days ago |

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074.

Does this mean Google is a proscribed terrorist organisation or whatever the legal designation is and can no longer work with the US government?

layer8 23 days ago | |

No. Google can’t make use of Anthropic within the scope of their own government contracts. That doesn’t mean they can’t invest in Anthropic otherwise.

tomrod 23 days ago | |

Does the EO actually hold any weight to that designation, or is that decided by the US Congress?

infecto 23 days ago | |

Was there ever anything more than a tweet from the secretary of defense? That holds no weight.

layer8 23 days ago | | |

Yes, they’ve been formally designated: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

infecto 23 days ago | | |

Ahh yes I forgot on that. Still seemed like not much of any impact, blowing smoke.

neofrommatrix 23 days ago |

Layoffs next month to make up for this? /s