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Wed Mar 04 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) ·reference ·source: Stratechery ·by Ben Thompson
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Interview: Gregory Allen About Anthropic and U.S. Government

Thompson interviews Gregory Allen about Anthropic’s dispute with the U.S. government over military AI use restrictions. Allen likely provides policy and national security context for the standoff over autonomous weapons and surveillance guardrails. This interview caps a week-long Stratechery arc on the Anthropic/DoW conflict, following the thought-leadership article, the follow-up on technological scale, and the revenue/Nvidia update.

RDCO Mapping

Completes the Anthropic trilogy this week. Cross-reference with vault’s Jaya Gupta moat thesis on Anthropic — the government relationship adds a new dimension to Anthropic’s risk profile and competitive positioning. The policy perspective is useful for understanding regulatory risk in the AI space.