Gideon's Substack • 38 implied HN points • 02 Mar 26
- The US attack on Iran could set off many unpredictable regional and global consequences, and America has limited ability to control what happens next.
- The Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic shows the government is asserting near-total control over frontier AI, threatening tech independence and creating a precedent that firms under US law may be treated like arms of the state.
- Together these actions signal a broader shift from rule-of-law and mutual trust to raw power and fear, eroding domestic and international trust and making the new path hard to reverse.