In a widely leaked internal memo that Sam Altman sent last Thursday night, a copy of which I obtained, the OpenAI CEO said that he would seek “red lines” to prevent the Pentagon from using OpenAI products for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. These were ostensibly the very same limits that Anthropic had demanded and that had infuriated the Pentagon, leading Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to declare the company a supply-chain risk—a hefty sanction that would require anybody who sells to the Pentagon to stop using Anthropic products in their work with the military. Perhaps OpenAI was about to secure the very terms Anthropic had been denied.