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Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government

99 points by vldszn 8mo ago

vldszn 8mo ago
A chronological overview of recent events involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and the United States Department of Defense. Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to add or update events, please feel free to submit a pull request. https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline
- themacguffinman 8mo ago
  The events are out of order, the bottom three events are: - Feb 27, 2026, 02:13 PM: OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation - Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 AM: Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - Feb 27, 2026, 10:14 PM: Dept. of War: Anthropic is a supply chain risk
  - vldszn 8mo ago
    yeah, sorry, just fixed
  - vldszn 8mo ago
    I think this is the correct timeline tbh: { date: "2026-02-28T02:56:35.000Z", title: "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in classified network", source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175", sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X", }, { date: "2026-02-28T01:24:31.000Z", title: "Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth", source: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war", sourceLabel: "Anthropic", }, { date: "2026-02-27T22:14:43.000Z", title: "Dept. of War: Anthropic is a supply chain risk", source: "https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070?s=20", sourceLabel: "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on X", }, { date: "2026-02-27T21:47:00.000Z", title: "U.S. government blacklists Anthropic", source: "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-anthropic-ai-federal-agencies", sourceLabel: "The Guardian", }, { date: "2026-02-27T14:12:04.000Z", title: "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation", source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027386252555919386", sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X", },
- baby 8mo ago
  You know you can use github pages
  - sgarland 8mo ago
    For real - OP, push some HTML / CSS, or even just Markdown. This is overly complex for what you’re doing.
    - vldszn 8mo ago
      Yeah, fair point. I used next.js out of convenience. It took around 5 mins for me to set up this project =) Site is purely static.
    - nickthegreek 8mo ago
      What’s with this policing of frameworks people want to use?
      - sgarland 8mo ago
        If this came across as doing so, I apologize. It was intended more as “there’s a much simpler way.” Here’s an analogy: I have a kitchen drawer that has had its face torn off, because the threads for the screws were destroyed. I tried fixing it twice by drilling them out, gluing a hardwood dowel in, and then redrilling for screw threads. After the second failure, I asked my FIL - who is a woodworker - if I should bore them out to a larger size, so I could use a larger dowel with more surface area for glue, etc. He said, “you could, but the failure point is the threads, because you’re driving parallel into end grain. A hardwood plug inserted such that you’re driving into edge grain would hold. Or, you could just move the screws, and optionally plug the old holes for aesthetics.” I was vastly over-complicating something that had an extremely easy solution. This problem exists everywhere in tech; people will recreate existing technology (usually in a worse fashion), or create Byzantine pipelines for a problem trivially solved by a bash script, etc. If you consider the available options for something, and then decide, that’s one thing. If you make what is objectively the wrong choice, that still might be understandable - maybe you want to learn something new, maybe it doesn’t matter at your scale (which tbf is true here, though Vercel’s pricing might cause pain if the site exploded in popularity), etc. But the point is, you should understand trade-offs, and what already exists.
mpalmer 8mo ago
Kind of odd it doesn't lead with the Anthropic statement predicting they were about be designated a risk because they'd refused to move past their red lines.
- vldszn 8mo ago
  I think, i fixed this
voganmother42 8mo ago
When will we get to add subverting the elections to the timeline? How does this autocratic speed run compare to others?
- grey-area 8mo ago
  It is unfortunately similar to the trajectory of Weimar Germany in many respects.
xorgun 8mo ago
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lxgr 8mo ago
What time zone are these listed in?
- vldszn 8mo ago
  UTC
- vldszn 8mo ago
  Sorry, it was converted from utc to your browser local time, now displaying always as UTC
AreShoesFeet000 8mo ago
It looks to me as a consumer that the worst option for my consumption is asserted as the inevitable decision of purchase only by coercion.
dpkirchner 8mo ago
FYI an accurate timeline should use the correct name for the government agency: Department of Justice. Hesgeth is the Secretary of Defense.
- vldszn 8mo ago
  thanks for the report, will check. hmm, it says on wiki: "The United States secretary of defense (SecDef), secondarily titled the secretary of war (SecWar)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Def...
  - dpkirchner 8mo ago
    "Secondarily titled" is not a thing in our constitution, so it is correct to use "Defense". Also I just noticed in my pedantry I typed Department of Justice. Embarrassing.
    - try_the_bass 8mo ago
      This is such a weird hill to die on. I'm pretty sure none of the cabinet positions are described by the constitution, so I'm not sure citing it here has any relevance at all?
      - toraway 8mo ago
        The constitution assigns legislative power to the Congress, and does not allow the President to rewrite law by fiat. The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947 and is still the law of the land until they pass legislation amending it. The Trump Administration could request the Republican controlled Congress rename the DoD in the NDA, but for whatever reason they have not done so. So it's correct to say that accepting the idea that a President can rewrite a law based on their own personal whims without Congress is in opposition to fundamental constitutional separation of powers.
        8mo ago
vldszn 8mo ago
UPD: updated timeline, fixed timestamps - they are now always displayed in UTC, fixed style issues. All new contributions are welcome: https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline
hbarka 8mo ago
You should also add Dario Amodei’s full interview today with his response: https://youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU https://youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU
- vldszn 8mo ago
  thank you, just added this event link: https://anthropic-timeline.vercel.app/#amodei-cbs-interview https://anthropic-timeline.vercel.app/#amodei-cbs-interview
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vldszn 8mo ago
03.02.2026 UPD: added new events (both past for additional context and recent ones) and improved styles.
throwaway911282 7mo ago
you should include anthropic's deal with palantir.. they are the first to actually do it.
- vldszn 7mo ago
  thank you, let me take a look into this

99 points by vldszn 8mo ago

A chronological overview of recent events involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and the United States Department of Defense. Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to add or update events, please feel free to submit a pull request. https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline

themacguffinman 8mo ago
The events are out of order, the bottom three events are: - Feb 27, 2026, 02:13 PM: OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation - Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 AM: Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - Feb 27, 2026, 10:14 PM: Dept. of War: Anthropic is a supply chain risk
- vldszn 8mo ago
  yeah, sorry, just fixed
- vldszn 8mo ago
  I think this is the correct timeline tbh: { date: "2026-02-28T02:56:35.000Z", title: "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in classified network", source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175", sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X", }, { date: "2026-02-28T01:24:31.000Z", title: "Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth", source: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war", sourceLabel: "Anthropic", }, { date: "2026-02-27T22:14:43.000Z", title: "Dept. of War: Anthropic is a supply chain risk", source: "https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070?s=20", sourceLabel: "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on X", }, { date: "2026-02-27T21:47:00.000Z", title: "U.S. government blacklists Anthropic", source: "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-anthropic-ai-federal-agencies", sourceLabel: "The Guardian", }, { date: "2026-02-27T14:12:04.000Z", title: "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation", source: "https://x.com/sama/status/2027386252555919386", sourceLabel: "Sam Altman on X", },
baby 8mo ago
You know you can use github pages
- sgarland 8mo ago
  For real - OP, push some HTML / CSS, or even just Markdown. This is overly complex for what you’re doing.
  - vldszn 8mo ago
    Yeah, fair point. I used next.js out of convenience. It took around 5 mins for me to set up this project =) Site is purely static.
  - nickthegreek 8mo ago
    What’s with this policing of frameworks people want to use?
    - sgarland 8mo ago
      If this came across as doing so, I apologize. It was intended more as “there’s a much simpler way.” Here’s an analogy: I have a kitchen drawer that has had its face torn off, because the threads for the screws were destroyed. I tried fixing it twice by drilling them out, gluing a hardwood dowel in, and then redrilling for screw threads. After the second failure, I asked my FIL - who is a woodworker - if I should bore them out to a larger size, so I could use a larger dowel with more surface area for glue, etc. He said, “you could, but the failure point is the threads, because you’re driving parallel into end grain. A hardwood plug inserted such that you’re driving into edge grain would hold. Or, you could just move the screws, and optionally plug the old holes for aesthetics.” I was vastly over-complicating something that had an extremely easy solution. This problem exists everywhere in tech; people will recreate existing technology (usually in a worse fashion), or create Byzantine pipelines for a problem trivially solved by a bash script, etc. If you consider the available options for something, and then decide, that’s one thing. If you make what is objectively the wrong choice, that still might be understandable - maybe you want to learn something new, maybe it doesn’t matter at your scale (which tbf is true here, though Vercel’s pricing might cause pain if the site exploded in popularity), etc. But the point is, you should understand trade-offs, and what already exists.

mpalmer 8mo ago

Kind of odd it doesn't lead with the Anthropic statement predicting they were about be designated a risk because they'd refused to move past their red lines.

vldszn 8mo ago
I think, i fixed this

voganmother42 8mo ago

When will we get to add subverting the elections to the timeline? How does this autocratic speed run compare to others?

grey-area 8mo ago
It is unfortunately similar to the trajectory of Weimar Germany in many respects.

xorgun 8mo ago

[dead]

lxgr 8mo ago

What time zone are these listed in?

vldszn 8mo ago
UTC
vldszn 8mo ago
Sorry, it was converted from utc to your browser local time, now displaying always as UTC

AreShoesFeet000 8mo ago

It looks to me as a consumer that the worst option for my consumption is asserted as the inevitable decision of purchase only by coercion.

dpkirchner 8mo ago

FYI an accurate timeline should use the correct name for the government agency: Department of Justice. Hesgeth is the Secretary of Defense.

vldszn 8mo ago
thanks for the report, will check. hmm, it says on wiki: "The United States secretary of defense (SecDef), secondarily titled the secretary of war (SecWar)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Def...
- dpkirchner 8mo ago
  "Secondarily titled" is not a thing in our constitution, so it is correct to use "Defense". Also I just noticed in my pedantry I typed Department of Justice. Embarrassing.
  - try_the_bass 8mo ago
    This is such a weird hill to die on. I'm pretty sure none of the cabinet positions are described by the constitution, so I'm not sure citing it here has any relevance at all?
    - toraway 8mo ago
      The constitution assigns legislative power to the Congress, and does not allow the President to rewrite law by fiat. The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947 and is still the law of the land until they pass legislation amending it. The Trump Administration could request the Republican controlled Congress rename the DoD in the NDA, but for whatever reason they have not done so. So it's correct to say that accepting the idea that a President can rewrite a law based on their own personal whims without Congress is in opposition to fundamental constitutional separation of powers.
      - 8mo ago

vldszn 8mo ago

UPD: updated timeline, fixed timestamps - they are now always displayed in UTC, fixed style issues. All new contributions are welcome: https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline https://github.com/VladSez/anthropic-timeline

hbarka 8mo ago

You should also add Dario Amodei’s full interview today with his response: https://youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU https://youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU

vldszn 8mo ago
thank you, just added this event link: https://anthropic-timeline.vercel.app/#amodei-cbs-interview https://anthropic-timeline.vercel.app/#amodei-cbs-interview

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vldszn 8mo ago

03.02.2026 UPD: added new events (both past for additional context and recent ones) and improved styles.

throwaway911282 7mo ago

you should include anthropic's deal with palantir.. they are the first to actually do it.

vldszn 7mo ago
thank you, let me take a look into this