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AI company Anthropic's Dario Amodei: "We are patriots."
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow its AI product, Claude, to be used by the Trump Administration without certain guidelines (such as not using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce on Friday that he is banning Anthropic's technology from all federal use. At the same time, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth labeled the company "a supply chain risk to national security." Amodei talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about why he calls the administration's actions "retaliatory and punitive."

If you feel muddled by this alphabet soup of names, it is easy to see why there is so much confusion about generational cohorts.
While some individuals are special and do not follow the trend, many appear hyper-individualistic or resistant to responsibility beyond themselves and some in their inner circle, while others are deeply collective and cause-driven. The bottom line is most don’t shive-a-git.

At first, he cried wolf because he was bored, needed attention, or behsps both reasons.

The hills answered him faithfully. The sound carried. The villagers came running. Breathless. Furious. Relieved.

The second time, he cried wolf because he liked the power.

There was something intoxicating about watching grown men drop their tools. Watching women leave their ovens. Watching urgency move at his command. Fear, he learned, was leverage.

By the fifth time, he didn’t even need a reason.

The word wolf was enough.

Social media and alcohol claim to bring people together, but in many cases, it's the opposite. Designed to connect the world, it frequently amplifies hostility, rewards division, and gives a megaphone to negative messaging. What is marketed as community can quickly become conflict, revealing a gap between the image social media promotes and the reality it sometimes produces.