Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the podcast, we're covering some

big news out of Anthropic. There's a couple pretty crazy stories going on right now. The first,

I think, is pretty exciting. Anthropic has made a big acquisition. They've acquired Vercept. It

is a computer use AI startup. And this is right after Meta came and poached one of the founders

of that startup.

So there's a lot of drama, but I think a lot of strategic advantage to Anthropic

trying to get in and acquire this company.

At the same time, there is some pretty wild news with Anthropic right now.

They're in the middle of a high-stakes standoff with the U.S. government.

The Pentagon basically, it came out that the Pentagon

used Claude like kind of like Claude basically but their coding assistant or

they're the Claude assistant when they did the Venezuela when they captured

Maduro they were using Claude to help them with a lot of the planning and I'm

not sure if that's what exactly what sparked it,

but at some point, Anthropic said, look, we don't want the U.S. government or the military

specifically using Anthropic for different things. And so they kind of like banned the military.

And then, of course, the military gets upset. And so anyways, there's a high-stakes standoff

going on right now where Anthropic has until Friday evening to either allow the U.S. military to use its model unrestricted or there's going to be a bunch of consequences. We're going to go into all of that on the podcast today. But before we do, I wanted to mention I have just completed a massive overhaul and redesign of A.I.box.a. And I would love for you to check it out. It's my own startup. You get access to over 40 models in one place. You can talk with all of them without having to have subscriptions to Anthropic and Gemini and Grock and 11 Labs and all of the different platforms. You get them all in one place. In addition, you can prompt it to create you a workflow or an AI tool.

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of new pricing options. You can get it for just $8.99 a month. And you can get an additional 20% off if you get the annual plan. So all of that's linked in the description, A.I.box.a. Let's talk about what's going on with Anthropic. So the biggest thing that I think is happening is, first of all, just this huge acquisition. And I think the reason why this is important is Anthropic is getting deeper and deeper into this kind of computer use area.

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