Anthropic Draws Lines as Google Pitches the Agent Era
Monday, May 25, 2026 · 8 min
Anthropic’s Claude founders say they rejected Pentagon demands to remove guardrails for autonomous weapons and surveillance, while Google DeepMind pitches Gemini Flash as the workhorse for long-running agents and AI sales hiring spirals into nine-figure comp.
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Anthropic’s Claude founders say they rejected Pentagon demands to remove guardrails for autonomous weapons and surveillance, while Google DeepMind pitches Gemini Flash as the workhorse for long-running agents and AI sales hiring spirals into nine-figure comp.
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- Why the Claude AI Founders Told the Pentagon No — Oprah
Speaking of friction, let's talk about your refusal to allow the military to remove safety guard rails from Claude. I don't want to get into the extensive details and back and forth here because other journalists are covering this on a daily basis, but what was the crux of that decision? >> Yeah. So, I would I would say on DoD or DO, you know, to be honest, we actually had worked with them,…
- Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow — The Twenty Minute VC
Even if you have the best product in the world, you're still going to leave money on the table if you have shitty salespeople. If a guy's been at salesforce.com for the last 5 years, he's never opened a new logo. Service Now. Service Now. Why would you want to hire people from Service Now? They don't know how to do any pipeline generation. We have two of the greatest sales leaders of the last…
- Google Gemini 3.5, Omni, and Managed Agents (Full Breakdown) — Greg Isenberg
We are here. It's Google I/O. Logan Kilpatrick from the DeepMind team, friend of the pod, been on the pod a few times. Logan, by the end of this episode, what are people going to learn? You're going to hear about all of the new releases from Google that just happened at Google I/O. And also, like specifically, we should deep dive on like how to build new AI agent native products, which was sort…
- Building A.I.: The Deep Mind Behind the Moment — ABC News
[music] >> Not so long ago the AI of today seemed [music] unimaginable. Now it can write code, generate video, help diagnose [music] diseases, and reason through complex problems in seconds. And as the race [music] to dominate artificial intelligence accelerates, Google is increasingly poised to take the [music] top spot, changing the way we search, how we create, even how we monitor our bodies.…