Making sense of Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon—and OpenAI’s opportunity

“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.” 

That’s a famous line from perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader from more than 20 years ago, and it echoes back to what Greek general Pericles said around 420 BCE. Politics will find and change you, whether you want it to or not. Which brings us to Anthropic. 

Anthropic—valued at $380 billion, with a deluge of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors on its cap table—is in what my colleague Jeremy Kahn calls “the...