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Michael warns China is stealing US AI models to unguardrail them
“Your models are getting stolen by the Chinese. They're going to unguard rail them and use them against us.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic exec asked Palantir if AI was used in Maduro raid
“After the Maduro raid, one of their execs called Palantir, who we buy themselves through and asked them was our software used in that raid, which is by the way, classified information.”
Emil Michael: Sam Altman urged Pentagon not to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk
“He was trying to protect anthropic to his credit. He was like, don't do, don't call him a supply chain risk. That's bad for the industry. Let me, maybe I can negotiate terms that they'll find acceptable.”
Emil Michael: No scenario for protracted U.S. ground war in Iran
“In terms of boots on the ground, there's no scenario where we have some protracted boots on the ground, Afghanistan, Iraq too, like scenario.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic follows its own constitution, not the US Constitution
“Anthropic has its own constitution. It has its own soul. It's not the U S constitution.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic will be excluded from Pentagon AI contracts under current posture
“And Throbic's not going to be one of them if they continue sort of with their sort of posture.”
Michael: Trump did not instruct Pentagon to drop Anthropic over donations
“It's a criticism on me because it's not like Trump, President Trump dipped in and he's like, hey, Emil, by the way, those guys didn't get me any money. You can't use them anymore.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Donald Trump a 'wannabe dictator'
“You called president Trump and your 5000 word essay on Friday, a wannabe dictator. You're gonna have to apologize to more people than just me.”
Michael: China purged its only general with combat experience
“And so they've learned a lot of lessons and you compare that to the Chinese military. They don't have a lot of experience. In fact, the decapitation they did in the Chinese military, the one guy they took out was the one guy who had experience in Vietnam. So t…”
Michael: Anthropic contracts barred kinetic strike planning and satellite movement
“They say you can't use them for, you can't use them to plan a kinetic strike. You can't use their AI model to move a satellite.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic missed a Pentagon deadline following high-level meeting
“So then that culminated in the Tuesday kind of dramatic meeting with Hexeth and Secretary Hexeth and me and Dario with the Friday deadline that, that got blown.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic retains control plane for AWS GovCloud deployed model
“Yeah, so they put their model in AWS GovCloud. And then Palantir serves it from there. And they refresh it. They held the control plane for the model.”
Emil Michael: AI leaders claim AI will cause 50% white-collar unemployment
“These, the leaders of these companies say they're going to cause 50% white collar unemployment.”
Emil Michael: Grok is deployed across classified and unclassified military networks
“Grok's all in. For all lawful use cases across all classified and unclassified networks”
Emil Michael: Anthropic became deeply embedded in military workflows
“The number one reason we were having this conversation at all is because they were deeply embedded.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic's AI coding lead will disappear in 12 months
“I believe in 12 months codex is not going to be close.”
Emil Michael: Modern warfare is shifting from $20B carriers to low-cost attritable systems
“Generally I do think warfare is going from big carrier ships that cost twenty billion dollars and a decade and a half to build To mass attributable, low cost things.”
Michael: China underwent the greatest military buildup in history recently
“It is true that Chinese have had the greatest military buildup in world history in the last 15 years”
Emil Michael: US military operation 'Midnight Hammer' in Iran was planned years in advance
“So, and they, these things, these war games have been on the on the shelf for a long time. Every, every scenario has been planned for years ahead of time. Midnight hammer and Iran was planned years ahead of time in terms of how would you do it if you were goin…”
Emil Michael: Drones cause 70% of casualties in Russia-Ukraine war
“70% of the casualties are for drone, but because of drones.”
Emil Michael: Future sophisticated drone warfare will feature AI-controlled swarms
“I mean, it's, I believe that a sophisticated drone war is going to be drone swarms controlled by AI to some degree or another, right?”
Michael: China forces commercial drone makers like DJI to interoperate
“They have drone swarms because they can force the companies that make them, not just DGI, to interoperate.”
Emil Michael: Pentagon is working to bring Google AI to classified networks
“We have Google for all lawful use cases on, on classified networks, and we're trying to move them to classified networks. They're just, They have to build out infrastructure because this stuff's complicated.”
Emil Michael: Defense tech venture capital is up 3x over last year
“There's more defense tech venture capital than ever by, you know, three X more than last year.”
Emil Michael: Lucas attack drones cost between $50,000 and $80,000
“The Lucas one-way attack drone, which can go five, six, 700 miles at the speed of an airplane, carry a big warhead. Those are like 50, 80,000 dollars, depending on what kind of equipment you put on it.”
Emil Michael: Palantir is the Pentagon prime contractor and Anthropic is sub
“Palantir is the prime contractor, their sub.”
Emil Michael: DoD Office of Strategic Capital has $200B in lending authority
“I have the office of strategic capital, which has two hundred billion in lending authority.”
Emil Michael: Defense battery supply and lithium sources are totally outsourced to China
“Batteries are totally outsourced both technologically and from lithium to China.”
Emil Michael: US military is fighting with 1980s Cold War weapons
“We're fighting with 1980 cold war weapons. Right. And not modern weapons.”