… The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical influence. …
… When Bessent and Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in April, it signaled that not only were they taking the threat seriously, they were now overriding Anthropic’s enemies in the Pentagon, who had, months prior, convinced Trump that Anthropic was “woke” and should be banned for government us… …
… How do you have more enforcement and more fracturing as geopolitics play out, but have more trade, more growth, and more economic security? …
… In 2024, the Biden administration published a memorandum on AI and national security, setting up rules for how AI can be used in certain national security scenarios — and for now, even under Trump, that policy is in force. …
… The other thing we have, which no one else has, is security. As we move to this agentic era with agents operating all over your infrastructure, you have to do security in the network because the latency requirements are going to require full-time security on these agents all the time. …
…Although Iranians are still able to secure tiny pockets of access here and there between VPNs, “they’re not going to be wasting their tiny bit of access trying to load something…
… Security through obscurity has these problems, right? …
… But I think the national security stakes are quite real even there. …