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by Calebp 104 days ago
Worth reading the actual Reuters piece this is based on rather than the Post's version of it.

For example, Reuters reports that investors "reiterated their support" for Anthropic while also expressing frustration with Amodei's diplomatic approach to the Pentagon. The Post mostly drops the support half and leads with the frustration.

Reuters also reports that OpenAI publicly defended Anthropic, with their national security policy person saying "We are actually working to have the secure risk designation removed from Anthropic" and that a major tech industry group including Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and OpenAI sent a letter pushing back on the supply-chain designation. The Post leaves both of those out.

Then the Post fills the gap with culture war material about an Anthropic researcher's blog posts on meat eating and incarceration, which has nothing to do with investor sentiment but makes the story read more like "woke company faces consequences" than "company tries to hold a line on autonomous weapons while investors push for a diplomatic resolution."

The Reuters piece tells a story about investors who broadly agree with Anthropic's position but think the relationship with the Pentagon was mishandled - but the Post turns that into a story about investors turning on a woke CEO.