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avaer · 15 days ago
> There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race

A bit of an insulting way to start the article.

Plenty of researchers and smaller companies would disagree, but they won't get articles written about them because they're not embroiled in DOW killbot drama.

We might not be in this situation if all of this money was given to them instead.

Terr_ · 15 days ago
In a similar vein, a shout out to all my software homies out there who are just trying to fix data entry input field bugs instead of constructing the Torment Nexus.
JohnTHaller · 15 days ago
The AI race refers to the big companies that through shady tactics are currently in the 'lead'. None of them are virtuous.

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ssl-3 · 15 days ago
"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.
Svip · 15 days ago
It's also still the Department of Defense; only Congress can change its name, and they haven't.
ssl-3 · 15 days ago
The article's title says "Department of War".

(I didn't write the title.)

dudefeliciano · 14 days ago
it's a subtle kowtow to the administration, to call the DoD the DoW
marginalia_nu · 15 days ago
Yeah title is currently likely to be interpreted as Dow Jones.
cls59 · 15 days ago
Or Dow Chemical.
Retric · 15 days ago
DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.
ssl-3 · 15 days ago
I considered the small "o". But the precedent for US government TLAs seems to be to capitalize the whole thing: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list
thatcat · 15 days ago
wouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?
siva7 · 15 days ago
Says windowscentral.com... People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic nor do they care about this dispute. What normal poeple might have heard is probably more something along the lines of Anthropic and supply-chain-risk and unpatriotic...
3rodents · 15 days ago
The top post on Reddit is about it, it has escaped the nerdsphere.
siva7 · 15 days ago
Reddit is an algorithm-based aggregator so of course it will show some hn dude also the same nerd stuff
mi_lk · 15 days ago
> People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic

"Claude by Anthropic" is currently #2 Top Free App in US App Store

siva7 · 15 days ago
According to the US App Store a rule-based proxy utility is the #1 paid app. So not sure how much relevance the App store charts have at all in real life.

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firefoxd · 15 days ago
One thing to take into account, this will now be a large source of revenue for them. You thought you would get away with the free tier, but now as a tax payer, we are all funding it.
cpeterso · 15 days ago
And they can get “too build to fail” bailouts from the US government after they are dependent on ChatGPT.
jedberg · 15 days ago
It’s DoD. It’s still not officially changed. But if you insist on using the nickname it should be DoW.
hbarka · 15 days ago
Dario Amodei direct interview today on CBS News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU

Jordan-117 · 15 days ago
*DoD

Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.