Twitter (X) paid him $10 million to settle a case they’d already won. Facebook (Meta) followed with $25 million. And now Google (Alphabet) has paid $24 million - not to Trump personally, but funneled through tax-exempt trusts supposedly for the National Mall, but really to fund construction of a massive 90,000-square-foot Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom on the White House.

Seems like more of the same ass kissing for most of these big tech companies. Is Anthropic any better?

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

not really

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-american-ai-leadership

They seem quite psyched to have Trump as the president. A whole page about what a good puppy they have been:

Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan. We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race, and I personally attended an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania with President Trump, where he and I had a good conversation about US leadership in AI. Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer attended a White House event where we joined a pledge to accelerate healthcare applications of AI, and our Head of External Affairs attended the White House’s AI Education Taskforce event to support their efforts to advance AI fluency for teachers.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So are phony lawsuits the new bribe-out-in-the-open technique?