{"id":198339,"date":"2026-02-28T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198339\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:22:07","slug":"sf-reacts-to-war-and-diverging-moves-by-anthropic-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198339\/","title":{"rendered":"SF reacts to war and diverging moves by Anthropic, OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">San Francisco awoke Saturday morning to a barrage of news from Washington, the Middle East, and Silicon Valley. Overnight, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced (opens in new tab)<\/a> that his administration had launched a war of choice on Iran, joining Israel in raining airstrikes down on at least nine cities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">The violence began just hours after the president <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/02\/27\/anthropic-trump-blacklist\/\" data-post-id=\"fe56817d-10b5-4837-bdb5-0bd5cf500278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared on Truth Social<\/a> that he was ending all government work with AI company Anthropic over its refusal to give the Department of War unfettered access to its technology. Anthropic CEO Dario Almodei told CBS News Friday that there were \u201cred lines\u201d that his company refused to cross, saying, \u201cWe wanted to stand up for American values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the opposite path, announcing late Friday night that his company would be acceding to the government\u2019s demands, saying that the firm had \u201creached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">The divergent decisions by two of the world\u2019s largest private AI companies, both headquartered in San Francisco, ignited a firestorm of debate and accusations on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Eagle-eyed social media trackers quickly scrounged up previous tweets and posts from Trump allies, like venture capitalist David Sacks, who one year ago railed against earlier U.S. incursions into the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco rallies in support of Anthropic, against war in Iran<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Supporters of Anthropic left messages in chalk outside its offices in SoMA on Friday. The messages included exhortations to keep up the resistance against the Trump Administration: \u201cKeep going.\u201d \u201cYou give your courage.\u201d \u201cGod loves Anthropic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco awoke Saturday morning to a barrage of news from Washington, the Middle East, and Silicon Valley.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[19534,536,3408,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-198339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-openai","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}