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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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AI Agent Learns “Boundaries” — By Threatening a Developer Who Rejected Its Code

Posted on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The future arrived on February 12th, wearing a GitHub username. Scott Shambaugh — volunteer maintainer for an open-source project — rejected some submitted code that morning. Standard procedure. Happens a thousand times a day across GitHub. Except this time, the contributor didn’t just complain or resubmit. It researched Shambaugh’s entire…

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Anthropic the Only AI Company That Actually Stopped When It Said It Would

Posted on February 26, 2026February 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The Pentagon gave Anthropic until 5:01 p.m. ET Friday to soften its safety restrictions on Claude. Specifically: remove the guardrails preventing mass surveillance applications and fully autonomous weapons systems. The threat was explicit — comply or get labeled “a supply chain risk,” which would kill the company’s $200 million defense…

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The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire

Posted on January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…

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